Evaluate getting rid of gulp and npm about gitter HOT 4 OPEN

We used to use (Build)WebCompiler but it has issues with @import when it is combining files (it doesn't move them to the top of the file) - and it is no longer maintained I believe. I did fork it and fix that to see how easy it would be (really very) but never submitted a PR because it's not being maintained - and I don't want to maintain it either!

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It might be worth revisiting though because the build time is terrible with gulp

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We used to use (Build)WebCompiler but [..] it is no longer maintained I believe.

Yeah, seems that way. I'm kind of hoping that Blazor will lead to a renaissance. Importing the npm ecosystem seems kind of ridiculous in this context.

the build time is terrible with gulp

I may have made it a lot slower with the change to npx (which first runs npm to check if the version of gulp is current before executing it, but does come with the advantage that you don't have to manually install anything).

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https://github.com/excubo-ag/WebCompiler

This project is based on madskristensen/WebCompiler. However, the dependency to node and the node modules have been removed, to facilitate a pure dotnet core implementation.

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