1.6.1 bundle size is not smaller

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Announcing Meteor 1.6.1. Babel 7, Cordova 7.1, Mongo 3.4… | by Ben Newman | Meteor Blog teases with:

I’m especially excited about pull request #9439, which promises to reduce bundle sizes dramatically for modern browsers and Node, and enable truly native async/await (and other ECMAScript features) in the browser.

However, after upgrading (which actually was a lot of work because of the forced coffeescript update), my JS bundle size and download time actually increased:

Before:

09
09946×430 75.4 KB

After:

55
55996×350 60.6 KB

Note that it went from 440KB to 484KB.

Is this normal? Have you guys been experiencing different results?

Edit: the increase is probably caused by some modules that I had to clone to the /packages directory to override the coffeescript dependency.

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The quote you have from the post talks about upcoming 1.6.2, not 1.6.1

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Gotcha, thanks. It’s getting late :drooling_face:

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Hello, are you using the bundle-visualizer package to see the details of your bundle? That can be a good way to optimize it.

And as @seba said, we need to wait for 1.6.2 to see if we have better numbers out of the box.

If dead code elimination starts to work considering Meteor.isServer / Meteor.isClient / Meteor.isCordova will be easier to reduce size with shared code, like in collections and using nested imports.

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Hey, yeah I’ve used the bundle visualizer before, and am using dynamic imports now in some places. I was just checking high level, because Ben was promising ‘dramatic reductions’ (but I misread).