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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by hawski on Friday April 22, 2016 @09:56AM (#11549182)
I am not JS dev, but... At this point there should be tree shaking / dead code removal for JS widely deployed. Why it is not? I know that dynamic nature of JS causes some of it, but most code out there is not that dynamic. How good is Google's Closure compiler?
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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by lloyd-christmas on Friday April 22, 2016 @10:05AM (#11549265)
rollupjs.org as well as webpack2 are doing this. As you said, the dynamic nature will prevent this from being native. Using a build tool isn't terrible though.
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