Speed up build time of Hybris version 6.x

1. Overview

You may have noticed that the build time of Hybris version 6.x using ant all command becomes a little bit slower than the previous versions of Hybris.

In Hybris 6.x, Grunt take a very big part of the build time to compile smartEdit extensions (js, sass…).

[echo] building extension 'cmssmartedit'...
...
Running grunt packageSkipTests
[exec] ←[4mRunning "jshint:all" (jshint) task←[24m
[exec] ←[32m>> ←[39m437 files lint free.
...

I think that Grunt takes from 40% to 50% of the total building time.

So in this article, I will show you how to speed up the build time of Hybris by preventing Grunt from being executed.

2. Config

I didn’t find a legitimate way to prevent Grunt from being executed in Hybris yet.

You may exclude smartEdit extensions from localextensions.xml for example, but personally I prefer to keep it.

So the proposition bellow is just a hack! 🙂

So inside \hybris\bin\ext-content\npmancillary\resources\ant\windows.properties I change the value of loc.NPM_HOME to any arbitrary value, for example :

#loc.NPM_HOME=${ext.npmancillary.path}\\resources\\npm
loc.NPM_HOME=NOT SET
...

The loc.NPM_HOME is used inside \hybris\bin\ext-content\npmancillary\buildcallbacks.xml.

Before disabling Grunt :

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2 minutes 47 seconds

After disabling Grunt :

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 minute 12 seconds

Note that you don’t want to disable Grunt permanently !

Mouad EL Fakir

Software Craftsmanship, Stackextend author and Full Stack developer with 6+ years of experience in Java/Kotlin, Java EE, Angular and Hybris…
I’m Passionate about Microservice architectures, Hexagonal architecture, Event Driven architecture, Event Sourcing and Domain Driven design (DDD)…
Huge fan of Clean Code school, SOLID, GRASP principles, Design Patterns, TDD and BDD.