Better CLI feedback for e.g. ng serve.

[infacto]

🚀 Improvement / Bug report / Feature request.

Command

• serve

Description

Just a small request: ng serve (and maybe all other commands) should print some text instantly after the command is executed.

You can see that after enter ng serve there is a long waiting time without any response. Appears to be dead. Annoying.
I would prefer an initial message directly after the command was entered. Something like:

ng serve
Builds and serves your app, rebuilding on file changes.
[-] Generating browser bla bla ...

This text comes from the docs. But we could also just print: Preparing... or the joke of the day.
Seriously, no response feedback on command execution feels weird and seems to be frozen.

Maybe this should be implemented on all commands?

[alan-agius4]

Is the progress option disabled by any chance?

If progress, is enabled feedback should be pretty quick.

[infacto]

What exactly do you mean? I cannot find any process option. Where can I find this option?
But I didn't do anything special. No custom configuration. @angular/cli and run ng serve. No additional parameters. If this option is disabled by default, it should be changed...

[alan-agius4]

progress not process. It’s enabled by default.

https://angular.io/cli/build.

Just want to confirm that you are not turning this

[infacto]

Sorry I also meant progress. Just a typo.
Now I ran ng serve --progress. No difference. Just a warning that "progress" is deprecated.

Following the docs:

--progress Log progress to the console while building.

I already see the building output. If I run with --progress="false" the log is blank. See my gif record on the initial post. If progress is disabled there is no Generating browser ... line. Just the final message Compiled successfully.

I mean the waiting between ng serve and the first print Generating browser ...

^{Here the same gif as in my initial post. A prove that progress is not disabled. Just watch it. It may take some seconds. And this demo record is a lucky case. Sometimes it takes a lot of more time until the first print appears.}

It would be great if the CLI instantly prints some text like Preparing... when a command is executed. Without any (complex / delayed) logic. Just like an echo. A quick confirmation feedback.

[eneajaho]

What @infacto is trying to say is that there is a delay between the time we execute ng serve and the first text shown on the terminal that something is being generated. (env: Windows)

[alan-agius4]

@infacto, I didn’t realise it was an animated GIF 😅

I have some ideas in mind which I am hoping to explore soon to tackle this issue.

[infacto]

I didn’t realise it was an animated GIF

Haha, exactly this is the problem here. 😄 It appears frozen.