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Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by schkkd on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:08PM (#23117007)
That's pretty much size of a mobile app. But the thing with web apps is that they are downloaded every time and hence the outcry.
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Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by speedgoose on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:31PM (#23117276)
They aren't though. You have a cache.
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Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by the_other on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:34PM (#23117940)
Facebook release multiple times a day (or they did), so the browser cache is irreLevant.
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Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by victorvation on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:28PM (#23119691)
As mentioned in the blogpost, they use code splitting and bundle hashing to actually maximize usage of browser cache.
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Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by pier25 on Friday May 08, 2020 @04:03PM (#23118845)
If you have code splitting many chunks will remain the same.
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Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by randall on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:26PM (#23118472)
There's a bunch of ways FB mitigates this.
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Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by the_other on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:41PM (#23120336)
Thanks siblings, for letting me know about FB’s use of code splitting and how it helps caching.
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Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by foota on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:06PM (#23118255)
I would bet that js bundling and splitting might prevent that from being true?
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Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by speedgoose on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:48PM (#23118074)
Perhaps but thankfully not all webapps are like Facebook.
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Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by mgraczyk on Friday May 08, 2020 @04:06PM (#23118882)
Not so, refresh the page to see how large the second download is (much smaller)
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