Any suggestion for making dev env faster

[caibirdme]

vector is such a huge project that everytime I change some lines of code, I have to wait for rust-analyzer running cargo check for over 2 minutes. If I run some tests, it'll trigger linking, and it's even cost me over 5~8 minutes to wait for the results.
That's really frustrating for me to contribute to this project. Any idea to make compiling or developing a little bit happier? I don't know how your dev experience look like

[jszwedko]

Hi @caibirdme !

You can see some tips here for speeding up compilation: https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/blob/master/docs/DEVELOPING.md#tips-and-tricks . The most effective is using feature flags to only build the part of Vector you are actively developing (e.g. cargo check (or build or test) --no-default-features --features "sinks-elasticsearch" if you are just modifying the Elasticsearch sink). You can see the full list of feature flags in Cargo.toml.

We are hoping to make some improvements here in the future to make it easier to iterate on sub-components of Vector without needing to do a full build.