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[📖] How to debug Big js chunks on build

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  • #6857 by @czuma — closed without merging
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Description

Suggestion

Create https://qwik.dev/docs/guides/debugging section to add information about how to debug and identify sub-optimal situations.

I was facing this warning about a big js chunk when i preview my site, and don't have idea of what library or where is that. So on big projects will be very difficult to identify what is causing the big chunk of data.
big chunk
i receive some help on discord community but end with a better solution, a vite pluggin called rollup-plugin-visualizer
the process is more or less easy.

  • npm install the package
  • Edit vite.config.ts to add the plugin
  • excecute the preview

After the first run will create the file stats.html on the root project and you can get an interactive graphic with the name of the chunks and the content of it, is size and so on.
rolluppluginoutput

on my personal case as you can see the big chunk is a lib called "faker" that i was using on dev to generate test data.

After the identification i can get rid of them on my IDE search tool.

@maiieul ask me to create this issue so we don't forget to add this info on the docs

this week i will create a PR with all the steps

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Use the proposed /docs/guides/debugging section as the documentation target. Start by reviewing the existing guide structure, then follow the reported preview workflow with vite.config.ts and rollup-plugin-visualizer. Done means documenting setup, the generated stats.html visualization, and how it identifies oversized chunks.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript, vite
Domain
build-system, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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