Repository navigation
Add CompressionPlugin #234
Description
What do you think about adding CompressionPlugin? I usually statically compress the build assets during the build rather than dynamically on a Web server, it has a couple of advantages:
- Saves computation resources on the server
- Simplifies a bit the Web server configuration - no need to configure threshold, ratio, buffers (nginx-specific varies on the platform), the file types that should be compressed.
- Allows to calculate the real application payload size after the build and report/draw charts on CI.
Activity
PatrickJS commentedon Jan 19, 2016
good idea! can you make a pull-request for the prod webpack.config?
antonmoiseev commentedon Jan 19, 2016
Sure, will do. The plugin doesn't allow configuring the compression level, the default one I believe is 6. To enable level 9 it requires a tiny wrapper function around zlib which slightly complicates the build script. Which level you would prefer?
crh225 commentedon Apr 28, 2017
@antonmoiseev does angular need any configuration to serve the gzipped files?