Re:WebBundles are built for content-addressable networks
by spankalee on Sunday August 30, 2020 @06:36PM
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Why would WebBundles be a downgrade? If you currently serve multiple Rollup bundles, you can instead serve multiple WebBundles.
Re:WebBundles are built for content-addressable networks
by yencabulator on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:42PM
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See what I quoted and was replying to.
That world has largely moved to "chunks", where there are multiple bundles loaded on-demand, based on e.g. user navigating to a less-used part of the web app. Going to a single file as a WebBundle would be downgrade in features.
Replacing those JS transforming kludges with a reasonable file format sounds useful, though, and allows combining JS+CSS+images in a new way.
It does sound awfully lot like HTTP Push, which as far as I know is largely unused because the idea that the server knows what the client wants hasn't really proven true.