Disable setup:di:compile

Question

Maybe this is a very silly question. I can not understand why I must run the command setup:di:compile every time I make changes to custom modules, to see the results when I am in developer mode.

Can it be disabled?

Answer 1

You don't need to run it. You can simply delete the var/generation directory. You only really even need to do this when you create a new constructor or change or reorder the arguments being passed into one of your class constructors.

I actually opt to just delete the entire var directory.

Answer 2

You should not run setup:di:compile in developer mode!

This command need only for production mode.