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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 23:22:01 JST Aral Balkan

   Just peeked at #Kitten’s (https://codeberg.org/kitten/app) esbuild* bundle size and wow… with --sourcemap=inline, it’s 8MB. Without? 3MB 🙀

   So I guess it’s time for separate debug and release builds then :) It’s not everyday a single flag can reduce the size of your app’s download 2.6× but, hey, I’ll gladly take it 😺

   * esbuild (https://esbuild.github.io/) is a blazingly fast and robust JavaScript bundler. The --analyze & --metafile flags and https://esbuild.github.io/analyze/ help with bundle analysis.

   #SmallWeb

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 23:24:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     …Mind you, compared to the size of the Node runtime (which Kitten downloads at install-time), it’s actually quite negligible. Maybe I won’t prematurely optimise just yet. (It’s useful for others to be able to provide proper stack traces should something go awry in Kitten itself.)

     I’ll likely keep the single build with inline source maps for now.

     #Kitten #SmallWeb #prematureOptimisation

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 01:51:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     PS. This is a very neat visualiser for JavaScript bundles with source maps:

     https://evanw.github.io/source-map-visualization/

     #sourceMap #JavaScript #esbuild #bundle