Why is my webpack bundle.js and vendor.bundle.js so incredibly big?

Question

All my React projects tend to be incredibly large in file size (bundle.js is 4.87 mb and the vendor.bundle.js is 2,87 mb). I have no idea why it is this large. I already hav

Answer 1

React expects you to set NODE_ENV to 'production' for production builds, and to run it through Uglify -- this gets rid of a lot of extra verbosity, console logging, etc. Make sure you set that environment variable when building via webpack (e.g. NODE_ENV=production webpack at the command line).