Ember test --server takes very long to run (because of big folder under public)

Testing
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Hello Ember guru’s,

I have an Ember project with a large theme/stylesheet in the public folder (233MB on disk) (not all files are used).

I run my tests using “ember test --server”.

Whenever i make a change in my code, it takes a lot of time (about 40 secs) for my tests to be rerun. When i remove the (big) theme from the public folder, the tests rerun in under a second.

I suspect that the public folder is being copied everytime i make a change ?

Is there a way to prevent this (when running tests), or what is a way to make this go faster ?

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Are you running Windows?

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Yes i’m running Windows.

I’m also running as Admin and used ember-cli-windows.

I’m aware the resources under public are very big (and i will trim it down …), but i was just wondering if there is some easy thing i can do to make it so that its not copied on every test run…

TIA

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ember-cli should be able to use symlinks rather than copying: The Ember CLI - Introduction - Ember CLI Guides

However, if it is not, please file an issue in ember-cli repo: https://github.com/ember-cli/ember-cli

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I am running (powershell) as admin…

For what folders would links be used then - for everything under public ?

Im unsure how to see that something is a link …

Thx for your time!

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Are you using ember-cli 2.3.0? A number of changes were made that should help, such as:

https://github.com/ember-cli/ember-cli/pull/5370

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Googled that for you…

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You are too kind (I know i was being lazy…) Thank you very much.