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This example demonstrates the AggressiveSplittingPlugin for splitting the bundle into multiple smaller chunks to improve caching. This works best with a HTTP2 web server, otherwise there is an overhead for the increased number of requests.
AggressiveSplittingPlugin splits every chunk until it reaches the specified maxSize. In this example it tries to create chunks with <50kB raw code, which typically minimizes to ~10kB. It groups modules together by folder structure, because modules in the same folder are likely to have similar repetitive text, making them gzip efficiently together. They are also likely to change together.
AggressiveSplittingPlugin records its splitting in the webpack records. When it is next run, it tries to use the last recorded splitting. Since changes to application code between one run and the next are usually in only a few modules (or just one), re-using the old splittings (and chunks, which are probably still in the client's cache), is highly advantageous.
Only chunks which are bigger than the specified minSize are stored into the records. This ensures that these chunks fill up as your application grows, instead of creating many records of small chunks for every change.
If a module changes, its chunks are declared to be invalid, and are put back into the module pool. New chunks are created from all modules in the pool.
There is a tradeoff here:
The caching improves with smaller maxSize, as chunks change less often and can be reused more often after an update.
The compression improves with bigger maxSize, as gzip works better for bigger files. It's more likely to find duplicate strings, etc.
The backward compatibility (non HTTP2 client) improves with bigger maxSize, as the number of requests decreases.
var path = require("path");
var webpack = require("../../");
module.exports = {
// mode: "development || "production",
cache: true, // better performance for the AggressiveSplittingPlugin
entry: "./example",
output: {
path: path.join(__dirname, "dist"),
filename: "[chunkhash].js",
chunkFilename: "[chunkhash].js"
},
plugins: [
new webpack.optimize.AggressiveSplittingPlugin({
minSize: 30000,
maxSize: 50000
}),
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
"process.env.NODE_ENV": JSON.stringify("production")
})
],
recordsOutputPath: path.join(__dirname, "dist", "records.json")
};
Info
Unoptimized
Hash: 0a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d
Version: webpack 4.29.6
Asset Size Chunks Chunk Names
050bae6698d8aaba4919.js 6.91 KiB 1 [emitted]
0880c00cc5a4aa58c8f1.js 755 bytes 3 [emitted]
251da330b2eb8da40210.js 18 KiB 0 [emitted] main
f03d13da014f1d9733df.js 106 KiB 2 [emitted]
Entrypoint main = 251da330b2eb8da40210.js
chunk {0} 251da330b2eb8da40210.js (main) 8.96 KiB >{1}< >{2}< >{3}< [entry] [rendered]
> ./example main
[0] ./example.js 42 bytes {0} [built]
+ 3 hidden modules
chunk {1} 050bae6698d8aaba4919.js 6.41 KiB <{0}> ={2}= ={3}= [rendered]
> react-dom [0] ./example.js 2:0-22
3 modules
chunk {2} f03d13da014f1d9733df.js 106 KiB <{0}> ={1}= ={3}= [rendered] split chunk (cache group: vendors)
> react-dom [0] ./example.js 2:0-22
1 module
chunk {3} 0880c00cc5a4aa58c8f1.js 472 bytes <{0}> ={1}= ={2}= [rendered] [recorded] aggressive splitted
> react-dom [0] ./example.js 2:0-22
[8] (webpack)/buildin/global.js 472 bytes {3} [built]
Production mode
Hash: 0a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d
Version: webpack 4.29.6
Asset Size Chunks Chunk Names
3e7f320bdbeae27d9ceb.js 5.08 KiB 1 [emitted]
4bf06c4116a056b43cf1.js 103 KiB 3 [emitted]
e2f3160a2b31dabb3444.js 207 bytes 2 [emitted]
f0d9bbf43c76640c63b2.js 9.64 KiB 0 [emitted] main
Entrypoint main = f0d9bbf43c76640c63b2.js
chunk {0} f0d9bbf43c76640c63b2.js (main) 8.96 KiB >{1}< >{2}< >{3}< [entry] [rendered]
> ./example main
[2] ./example.js 42 bytes {0} [built]
+ 3 hidden modules
chunk {1} 3e7f320bdbeae27d9ceb.js 6.41 KiB <{0}> ={2}= ={3}= [rendered]
> react-dom [2] ./example.js 2:0-22
3 modules
chunk {2} e2f3160a2b31dabb3444.js 472 bytes <{0}> ={1}= ={3}= [rendered] [recorded] aggressive splitted
> react-dom [2] ./example.js 2:0-22
[8] (webpack)/buildin/global.js 472 bytes {2} [built]
chunk {3} 4bf06c4116a056b43cf1.js 106 KiB <{0}> ={1}= ={2}= [rendered] split chunk (cache group: vendors)
> react-dom [2] ./example.js 2:0-22
1 module
Records
{
"modules": {
"byIdentifier": {
"example.js": 0,
"../../node_modules/react/index.js": 1,
"../../node_modules/react/cjs/react.production.min.js": 2,
"../../node_modules/object-assign/index.js": 3,
"../../node_modules/react-dom/index.js": 4,
"../../node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.production.min.js": 5,
"../../node_modules/scheduler/index.js": 6,
"../../node_modules/scheduler/cjs/scheduler.production.min.js": 7,
"../../buildin/global.js": 8
},
"usedIds": {
"0": 0,
"1": 1,
"2": 2,
"3": 3,
"4": 4,
"5": 5,
"6": 6,
"7": 7,
"8": 8
}
},
"chunks": {
"byName": {
"main": 0
},
"bySource": {
"2 example.js react-dom": 1,
"0 example.js react-dom": 2,
"1 example.js react-dom": 3
},
"usedIds": [
0,
1,
2,
3
]
},
"aggressiveSplits": [
{
"modules": [
"../../buildin/global.js",
"../../node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.production.min.js"
],
"size": 108540,
"hash": "0880c00cc5a4aa58c8f164d5b18e50e0",
"id": 3
}
]
}