A faster route to deploying static content in Magento 2? Dev to Live etc?

Question

This is my environment. Please note this is also set in the relevant development modes and production modes.

Dev:
https://ar.dev.loc/
https://en.dev.loc/

Live:
         


        

Answer 1

General comment:

You must not do "grunt"ing here as you do setup:static-content:deploy. You can generate the static content for en_US (that is w/o the parameter) and ar_SA in parallel (bash allows you to do that quite easily).

If you miss HTTPS (secure) resources (maybe that was the reason you used grunt additionally?), ensure the environment variable "HTTPS" is set (e.g. HTTPS=ON) for the process that compiles static content (ref).

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Apart from that, yes it takes time. What has come to attention is that the PHP less compilation takes quite some time. One idea that came to my mind when I heard about that from another developer was to cache less compilation in a local less cache and only re-compile if a file actually changes. Maybe you can try that as well.

I'm not yet responsible with hacking a PoC together for it but think it should be a good test for the claim that the less compilation is the bottleneck.

I also can heavily suggest to run a build server that compiles on git push automatically to lower the burden.