michaelneale Personalization is about 1.9Mb

phwoar...

This ticket has morphed a bit. We have fixed the serious bloating of some of the bundles e.g. personalization is now back down to 0.6 Mb (from 1.9Mb). However, we are looking into the possibility of more completely externalizing dependencies (react etc) into bundles formed from an entry module that lists all the JS in the package Vs just listing the "main" entry module (module listed in "main" property of package.json). With that then we can hopefully do 2 things:

1. Completely remove all dependencies (react etc) from our "app" bundles, which will hopefully reduce them in size considerably. No sneaking into the bundle through the back door
2. "Install" dependencies (react etc) in the browser localstorage. Once "installed", these bundles never need to be downloaded again. Not sure if there's actually a big win to be made here Vs just relying on the browser cache (via cache control headers). What would certainly be eliminated is the "if-modified" requests that are made (fairly sure ... forget exactly) if you hit the hard reload in the browser + the full reload requests that would be made on a Jenkins restart (after adjunct and static URLs change). I think we might need to try this out to see if that makes a worthy improvement.

agree tfennelly to both points. Hard to say about local storage but worth a try.
Reducing size == reducing computation too. The most problematic thing now is mostly the cold load time (as it is often cold, eg after a restart where the URI changes for assets) - I am not sure if #2 helps with that (curious though)

Closing this and opening JENKINS-39646.