'ng' commands continue to be very slow to START executiing

[momoadeli]

Please provide us with the following information:

OS?

Mac OSX Sierra

Versions.

1.0.0-beta.19-3 (any ng 'X' command is extremely slow to START executing

Repro steps.

Type ng serve. It will take around 1 minute to START execution. Most ng 'xxx' are the same. (eg: ng --version)

The log given by the failure. : Not applicable

Mention any other details that might be useful.

I've mentioned this before in #2791 (for ng --version). Continues to be an issue for every command. Not sure if this is a bug or something quirky with my iMac. I don't experience it for any other NPM package. The was happening in previous version of cli AND Yosemite as well.
NOTE: I've un/re installed multiple times.

[hansl]

There is a LOT of requires done when you start the command. We are working on this.

Although #3199 is tracking install time, I also reduced significantly the amount work (from 5 seconds to 3 when developing locally, where we also compile TS). I'm closing this as this is vague, but I added a point to that issue to drop bootstrap time as well.

[momoadeli]

@hansl , I want to be clear this is not about execution times of various commands. As indicated, this is about starting execution. Is that what you're referring to by 'bootstrap time'? Thanks!

[hansl]

Yes.

[jdhenckel]

Why not add a terminal mode to cli, such as "ng term" which just opens a prompt into which you can type several commands? this would "solve" the startup time issue with very little effort.

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