developit / developit/proptypes

Removing dead code in prod builds

Ouverte
#4 2 commentaires 0 réactions 0 personnes assignées Voir sur GitHub
Langage dominant
JavaScript
Étoiles
60
Forks
11
Métriques de merge des PR
Aucune PR mergée en 30 j

Description

I've been looking a little into reducing the weight of my production `libs.js` and noticed that this `proptypes` lib was adding around ~4kb after minification, I know not much but hey every bit counts, especially when proptypes isn't used in prod builds.

Looking at `preact-compat` where these prop types get brought in I see you formulate a `DEV` var based on `process.env.NODE_ENV` [here](https://github.com/developit/preact-compat/blob/master/src/index.js#L31), that's then used to enable/disable PropType usage.

Unfortunately uglify.js with webpack DefinePlugin doesn't strip out the proptypes code based on this. Perhaps with tree shaking it might but that's not [100% working yet](https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/2867) so I've not spent too much time there. Also I think you need to use the explicit conditional e.g. `if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production')` for uglify stripping to work (see below).

Looking at [React code](https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/src/isomorphic/classic/types/ReactPropTypes.js#L73) they stub out all the prop type validators and use these when `process.env.NODE_ENV` is `production'`. They actually have a babel processor which replaces `__DEV__` with `process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production`.

So first pass I tried formulating the `DEV` var like you did in preact compat and applying it. That didn't work though. For uglify to strip the code you seem to have to use the explicit check in the conditional, and on it's own.

```
if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production'`) {

} else {

}
```

which webpack will replace with the following in prod builds

if (false) { ...

https://github.com/developit/proptypes/compare/master...mikestead:feature/prod-noop?expand=1#diff-1fdf421c05c1140f6d71444ea2b27638R117

So the above works and my libs shrink

libs.c1c2e08.js 131 kB 1, 2 [emitted] libs // before
libs.a0e99bd.js 127 kB 1, 2 [emitted] libs // after

My problem is how to polyfill `process.env` IN the proptypes `index.js`. I tried something like the following
```
if (typeof process === 'undefined') {
var process = {};
}
if (!process.env) {
process.env = {};
}
```
but that interferes with the uglify stripping too. I think it would need polyfilled outside of this module for it to work?

Not super high priority, just hoped there may be a quick win.

Guide de contribution

Aucun guide de contribution indexé pour ce dépôt

Évaluation

Cette issue n'a pas encore été évaluée.

Recevez les nouvelles issues par e-mail

Un résumé court des issues GitHub adaptées aux débutants.