Support route-based code splitting
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Description
Expected Behavior
Having the self-contained build is a great improvement in terms of bundle size. Creating sap-ui-custom.js bundles brings huge performance benefits. However, as apps grow, the bundle grows as well. This can become an issue, especially for the initial start up time of such an app.
To address large bundle files lots of tools like Webpack perform Code-Splitting. A common approach is to split bundles by routes. UI5 already comes with a concept of routes and components. It would be great to have the ui5 builder support splitting bundles by routes as well.
Current Behavior
Projects can either be build using the preload or self-contained build. The latter does not allow code splitting.
Sample Project Setup
Imagine the following setup of application using routing and nested Components (each which potentially differing ui5 control includes and dependencies):
projectA (application)
└─(uses sap/m/Page, ...)
\
├──/home (component)
│ └─(uses sap/m/Button, sap/f/Avatar)
│
├──/users (component)
│ └─(uses sap/m/Button, sap/ui/table/Table)
│
├──/report (component)
│ └─(uses ui5lab/thirdparty/lib)
Affected components (if known)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the self-contained build behavior in ui5-builder and how ui5-server handles the resulting bundles. Trace how routes, components, control includes, and dependencies are represented, then define the split-bundle behavior and verify that route-specific bundles load while the existing preload and self-contained builds continue to work.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100