Improve startup time by adding fast-boot

Change-type: minor
Signed-off-by: Shaun Mulligan <shaun@balena.io>

.gitignore

@@ -39,3 +39,6 @@ balenarc.yml
 build/
 build-bin/
 build-zip/
+
+# Ignore fast-boot cache file
+/bin/.fast-boot.json

bin/balena

@@ -4,4 +4,8 @@
 // operations otherwise, if the pool runs out.
 process.env.UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE = '64';
 
+// Use fast-boot to cache require lookups, speeding up startup
+require('fast-boot2').start({
+	cacheFile: __dirname + '/.fast-boot.json'
+})
 require('../build/app');

bin/balena-dev

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 // operations otherwise, if the pool runs out.
 process.env.UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE = '64';
 
+// Use fast-boot to cache require lookups, speeding up startup
+require('fast-boot2').start({
+	cacheFile: '.fast-boot.json'
+})
 process.env['TS_NODE_PROJECT'] = require('path').dirname(__dirname);
 require('coffeescript/register');
 require('ts-node/register');

package.json

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
     "balena-preload": "^8.0.4",
     "balena-sdk": "^11.2.0",
     "balena-settings-client": "^4.0.0",
-    "balena-sync": "^10.0.0",
+    "balena-sync": "^10.0.2",
     "bash": "0.0.1",
     "bluebird": "^3.3.3",
     "body-parser": "^1.14.1",
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@
     "etcher-sdk": "^0.2.0",
     "event-stream": "3.3.4",
     "express": "^4.13.3",
+    "fast-boot2": "^1.0.9",
     "global-tunnel-ng": "^2.1.1",
     "hasbin": "^1.2.3",
     "humanize": "0.0.9",
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@
     "reconfix": "^0.1.0",
     "request": "^2.81.0",
     "resin-bundle-resolve": "^0.6.0",
-    "resin-cli-form": "^2.0.0",
+    "resin-cli-form": "^2.0.1",
     "resin-cli-visuals": "^1.4.0",
     "resin-compose-parse": "^2.0.0",
     "resin-doodles": "0.0.1",