Fix and update Webpack build / Vendor chunking and overall compilation speed. (Question)

[consigliory]

Hi. First thanks for project. I have a question when do you plan to split vendor scripts ?

[michael-vasyliv]

Hello! Interested too, I have low computer and webpack builds scripts long, it builds base template about 60s for each side, (my project builds now 110s for each side (it has 6 pages, few lib (bootstrap.js, Tether, jquery)))

[MarkPieszak]

Tomorrow or Thursday I'll get them in there, this has been long overdue.
Really sorry about that, cross-country moves are brutal 👍

[JohnGalt1717]

When the vendor split, won't that cause tree shaking to have issues because it won't know if something is needed or not?

I have tree shaking working nicely, and I'd love to see the vendor split, but only if it's not going to break tree shaking in production. Hope you can make it all work together nicely :) (Might make sense to enable tree shaking with uglifyjsplugin at the same time you're doing this to make sure it works properly?)

[JohnGalt1717]

How's this coming? Anything I can take a look at?

[MarkPieszak]

Long weekend apologies, I was in the middle of it but didn't push anything up just yet.
Yeah I'll try to make it as good as possible for production builds

[LiverpoolOwen]

what kind of size are you getting your page load requests down to with tree shaking and AOT @JohnGalt1717 ?

[JohnGalt1717]

About 1/3rd the size of aot alone.

[JohnGalt1717]

Mark, thanks for all of the efforts. Enjoy the weekend. I look forward to what you create.

[MaklaCof]

Can someone clarify for me. Will this vendor split also speed up webpack --env.aot --env.client & webpack --env.aot --env.server command. Mine takes around 120 seconds and I run it very often. A few times per day, so it would be great if that someone answer is yes.

[yanbu0]

I ended up splitting out the vendor scripts and polyfills myself and it SIGNIFICANTLY increased build speed across the board. From upwards of 75 seconds sometimes to between 500ms and 2 seconds. This would be a great enhancement to see implemented "offically".

[JohnGalt1717]

@yanbu0 Any tips on how you went about it?

[yanbu0]

I don't really have it working as well as I would like yet. Still some weird stuff going on with AoT and server side builds occasionally where it takes forever and a day to build still. I'm probably going to have to buckle down and do a webpack deep dive at some point this week or next to get this all straightened out, its driving me nuts, haha.

[MarkPieszak]

Sorry guys I haven't had much time recently but I'll get a much better webpack build in there as soon as I have a few hours 😓

[JohnGalt1717]

Hi @MarkPieszak we're really looking forward to it here. It's killing us both in development and then in production publishes where it's taking upwards of 16 minutes with AOT alone which is just brutal waiting for deploys.