Webpack how to build production code and how to use it

Question

I am very new to webpack, I found that in production build we can able to reduce the size of overall code. Currently webpack builds around 8MB files and main.js around 5MB.

Answer 1

Use these plugins to optimize your production build:

  new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin('common'),
  new webpack.optimize.DedupePlugin(),
  new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin(),
  new webpack.optimize.AggressiveMergingPlugin()

I recently came to know about compression-webpack-plugin which gzips your output bundle to reduce its size. Add this as well in the above listed plugins list to further optimize your production code.

new CompressionPlugin({
      asset: "[path].gz[query]",
      algorithm: "gzip",
      test: /\.js$|\.css$|\.html$/,
      threshold: 10240,
      minRatio: 0.8
})

Server side dynamic gzip compression is not recommended for serving static client-side files because of heavy CPU usage.