Optimizing JavaScript packages for tree shaking
Published on April 12, 2019 and filed under Software engineering
Written by Geoffrey Dhuyvetters and will take
Written by Geoffrey Dhuyvetters and will take
7 minutes
of your time.In shortAs authors of (open source) packages, we all share the responsibility to protect the bundle size of the package consumer. One of the techniques a bundler applies is tree shaking. But what exactly is tree shaking? And how can we prepare our JavaScript package to enable this technique?
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Written by
Geoffrey Dhuyvetters
This former teacher likes all things front end (the more complex web applications get, the happier Geoffrey becomes). His weak spot? JavaScript and all its quirks
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