Run app without "compiling"

[jwkvam]

I tried to follow best practices when creating Bowtie which led me down the path of using yarn and webpack to fetch and bundle up the app. I don't necessarily want to deviate too much from this but it does create a poorer user experience compared to a package that just let's you run the app directly.

I am thinking that if I can just translate *.jsx files and grab js libraries from cdns that this could be possible.

• create a new command e.g. run
• create links for packages in packages.json from unpkg.com
• translate jsx to js with babel
• insert sources into index.html

Update: Putting this on hold for now, since I'm not sure how technically feasible it is. In the mean time building apps has been optimized, especially for subsequent builds. I've also added a run command that combines building and serving into one command.

[jwkvam]

Thought about this again. I think the best thing to do is compile a HUGE bundle that combines all the js libraries used by bowtie. It would be a little ugly having a 1mb binary blob in the repo, but I think the overall ux outweighs that.