Cached Build Runner

Cached Build Runner is a Dart package that optimizes the build_runner by caching generated code for unchanged .dart files. This package can be used as a dev_dependency and provides a cached version of the build_runner, which caches generated files instead of generating them every time.

Usage

cached_build_runner <command> [arguments]

Commands

Global options: -h, --help Print this usage information.

Available commands:

• build: Performs a single build on the specified targets and then exits.
• watch: Builds the specified targets, watching the file system for updates and rebuilding as appropriate.
• cache: Commands for manipulating cache.

Available arguments:

• -h, --help: Print out usage instructions.
• -v, --verbose: Enables verbose logs.
• -d, --debug: Enables even more verbose logs.
• -p, --[no]prune: Enable pruning cache directory when pubspec.lock was changed since last build. Defaults true.
• -c, --cache-directory: Provide the directory where this tool can keep the caches.

Cache sub-commands

• prune: Clear cache directory.
• list: List table of files with hash (digest) and their dirty state.

arguments

• -h, --help: Print out usage instructions.
• -v, --verbose: Enables verbose logs.
• -c, --cache-directory: Provide the directory where this tool can keep the caches.

Installation

Add the package to your pubspec.yaml file under dev_dependencies:

dev_dependencies:
  build_runner: ^latest_version
  cached_build_runner: ^latest_version

Please note that you have to add build_runner as a mandatory dependency in your project for cached_build_runner to work properly.

Replace latest_version with the latest available version of the package.

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Original work done by @jyotirmoy-paul.