solidusio / solidusio/solidus_starter_frontend
generate reduced remixicon sprite
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- Ruby
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Description
Desired Behavior
The Remixicon sprite is very heavy, 700KB for the currently used version, 1.5Mb for the current updated remixicon sprite. Compression reduces the size to ~150kb, which is still a lot of excess weight. I think we can do better, we should build the sprite by our own for frontend and backend as we do not need hundreds of KBs to be loaded.
svg_sprite from fnando could be an alternative.
A solution could also be to separate backend and frontend sprites.
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 locating how the current Remixicon sprite is generated and which icons are used by the frontend and backend. Compare whether separate reduced sprites are appropriate; done means the required icons remain available while the generated assets are substantially smaller.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- frontend, performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100