You are still waiting 40 seconds for a dev server that restarted.
Not because your machine is slow.
Not because your project is too large.
Because your build tool forgot everything it knew the moment the process exited
The pattern every frontend team accepts automatically:
# restart dev server
vite
# watch it reprocess 11,000 modules
# that haven't changed since yesterday
Three wasted phases — resolution, transformation, optimization — on code that the tool already understood. Every restart. Every CI run. Every branch switch.
The architectural flaw:
build starts → analyzes deps → transforms modules → exits
build starts → analyzes deps → transforms modules → exits
build starts → analyzes deps → transforms modules → exits
No memory. No accumulation. Just stateless execution on repeat.
What Ionify does instead:
build starts → checks persistent graph → retrieves CAS result → done
The dependency graph survives the process. The transformation result is stored by content hash. If the input hasn't changed — across restarts, across branches, across machines — the output is retrieved instantly.
Real things this removes from your pipeline:
- Re-analysis of unchanged dependencies on every cold start
- Tree-shaking running from scratch on modules it processed an hour ago
- CI rebuilding what the previous run already computed
- The 40-second gap between "I saved the file" and "I see the change"
What this gives you instead:
- sub-100ms warm rebuilds on 11,000+ modules
- One persistent graph shared across dev and production
- Dep optimization that lives from the first cold start and never repeats
How many seconds does your build tool spend reprocessing code that hasn't changed?
pnpm create ionify@latest
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