No affect on frontend after installing baler

[Nafisa78]

Hello,

I have installed baler, did all necessary configuration and ran all commands.
But i don't see any performance improvement on frontend.

[Tomasz-Silpion]

Interesting I fall into the same issue today. All I've got is:

baler build
✔ Collected theme/module data 132ms

Optimization is done, but stats have not been implemented in the CLI yet

[Nafisa78]

Even i got this message. What does this means?

[Quazz]

@Nafisa78 It means something went wrong, it is supposed to loop through your themes and gather info about the JS files.

You can try to run baler build --trace to get a trace file.

[Tomasz-Silpion]

Nothing wrong there

(220.96285897493362): starting CLI
(222.29880899190903): looking for magento root starting at (...)
(223.66586297750473): starting build command from cli
(227.33184498548508): reading enabled modules from app/etc/config.php
(227.91100698709488): requesting module/theme payload from magento
(235.7881259918213): checking pub/static for deployed themes
(241.58203399181366): found deployed themes: (...)
(242.73591601848602): enabled modules (...)
```

Custom theme is within deploy themes. My custom theme parent is Magento/blank

[Quazz]

After enabled modules you should see:

received modules/themes payload from magento: (...)

Followed by much more afterwards as it looks for theme parents, deployed locales, etc And then it should be resolving javascript dependencies.

[Tomasz-Silpion]

Damn vim, indeed they are there with Baler error created. Message: Failed reading RequireJS config on next page. Thank's a lot. I know where to look now.

[Tomasz-Silpion]

Ok, at least in my case no effect was caused by native js bundling and minification. After disabling them with:

php bin/magento config:set dev/js/minify_files 0
php bin/magento config:set dev/js/enable_js_bundling 0

and redeployment the output states:

✔ (Gtx/fixero) Created core bundle file 1.8s
⠏ (Gtx/fixero) Minify core bundle and RequireJS config
✔ (Gtx/fixero) Minified core bundle and RequireJS 14.9s

Baler bundle balerbundles/core-bundle.js is visible in website source html.