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Peeking at sparks.land I see that you're serving .ts files, I assume that's what you mean by using sucrase, you're transpiling "live" instead of building/deploying bundles offline?

I notice your script files are all pretty small, have you run into any upper limits on performance or scalability so far with this approach?

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Correct! In production we've got Cloudflare in the middle, so we're only using sucrase on-the-fly for each .ts file during development. So far it's unnoticeable in terms of loading times.

> I notice your script files are all pretty small, have you run into any upper limits on performance or scalability so far with this approach?

Not that I can tell. But if we need to, we can always do a minified bundle in production later on. So far it's just nice to not have to even think about it!

Wait, so you're running Sucrase in a Cloudflare Worker?

It compiles, and then caches the output I assume?

That's a really cool use case I hadn't thought of..

Not quite, I'm running Sucrase on my Deno HTTP server: if the extension is ".ts", I put the file through sucrase before serving it as text/javascript. In development, it happens every single time I reload (and it's fast enough that I don't even notice). In production, Cloudflare requests the .ts file from my server once (triggering sucrase), and then caches it.

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