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0 pointsKlathmon7y ago0 comments

2mb is a LOT of code, like an absurd amount for most projects. That almost always points to larger issues, like a complete disregard for bundle size in the first place.

And if the project isn't worrying about bundle size at all, then even their vanilla/jquery page is going to end up bloating a ton as well.

More often than not the culprit in 2mb bundle sizes is a a few packages that include "data" in the bundle (For example, i've seen timezone and locale information bloat bundles by megabytes, and in one case a 5mb bundle ended up being 4.6mb of zip codes...)

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braindouche7y ago

Yeah, that was me, sorry. I wasn't given a choice.

KlathmonOP7y ago

lol I did it too once! We were making a PoC one time for a small app, and ended up needing a way to quickly determine some location information related to the zip. I remembered that I saw the ~5mb bundle once that had all the zipcodes in it, and found a library that would let me do that, and bundled it right in.

The PoC ended up working out, and we built the infra to correctly handle the lookups without needing to bundle the entire country from there, but man did that raise some eyebrows from a few other devs that noticed it!

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