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Webpack Compression #96

Closed n1cator closed 5 years ago

n1cator commented 6 years ago

I feel like in a Production Build it would be nice to offer compressed .js files (for Mobile Users) e.g. gzip, compression-webpack-plugin could be a Candidate for this.

chrisvfritz commented 5 years ago

I believe most static site hosts (e.g. Netlify, Surge) and web servers (nginx, Express, Hapi, etc) can automatically gzip assets for you, so this is usually more of a backend than frontend concern.

n1cator commented 5 years ago

@chrisvfritz Works well with the nginx gzip_static module but I would still provide a PR if wanted.

chrisvfritz commented 5 years ago

There are a couple reasons compression isn't already built into this project (or Vue CLI). Gzipping here would:

increase build times (unnecessarily, most of the time)
imply that the mere existence of gzipped assets is sufficient, when they won't actually do anything unless the server is configured to serve them with Content-Encoding: gzip

So I'd rather keep that concern out of this project. Does that make sense?