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Large bundled filesize #82
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In the current version of purescript-react, react is required, so I need to use pulp browserify -O instead of pulp build -O. Compiling the purescript-react-example project, this leaves me with a 684K javascript file where most of the react stuff is still included. This feels quite heavy for a small demo project.
I am in the progress of updating a Thermite project to the newest version (of Thermite and -react) and this change increased the bundle filesize by a factor of 4-5. My guess is that the psc-bundle dead code eliminiation is somehow better than the browserify one.
Does someone have any ideas on how to address this problem?
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paf31 commentedon Aug 7, 2016
Another option is to write a little
requireshim in a JavaScript file. I think thepurescript-react-examplerepo does that, and so does the Thermite demo.sharkdp commentedon Aug 7, 2016
Interesting. This doesn't help with dead code elimination (i.e. the total JS file size), though?
paf31 commentedon Aug 7, 2016
Yes, you can use
psc-bundle, and then you'll be left with therequirestatements forreactandreact-dom, which you can then provide using a shim.sharkdp commentedon Aug 7, 2016
Sorry for the poor explanation from my side. My point was that I (believe I) was previously able to use
psc-bundleto perform DCE onreact.jsitself.paf31 commentedon Aug 10, 2016
Ah I see. I wasn't aware that was possible before, I'm slightly surprised 😄