How to reduce bundle size of Plotly.js for 3D surface chart?

[Rezakarimi66]

Hi, Could someone please answer my question here. I have asked it everywhere and no one cares :(

[archmoj]

@Rezakarimi66
Our gl3d bundle size is 1.4 MB and not 0.5 MB as you mentioned on stackoverflow.
This is close to what you built using webpack.

[Rezakarimi66]

@archmoj I just double checked the size of latest gl3d bundle. The minimized version which currently I am using (look here) has a size of 465kB. How did you create that file? I have used webpack and also browserify to create such bundle but not successful.

Please take a look at my code here

[archmoj]

@alexcjohnson this is interesting in terms of using webpack instead of browserify.

[Rezakarimi66]

@alexcjohnson this is interesting in terms of using webpack instead of browserify.

Size of bundle is also big with browserify for me. It's 1.4MB. You could see it with running my script "borwserify-prod" (here). Webpack or browseriy or any other tool doesn't matter for me. Just trying to get the same size as yours.

[archmoj]

@Rezakarimi66 your fork is rather behind latest changes made to plotly.js including various module upgrades. Could you pull these changes (or on a separate repo) and then try applying your commit on top of that?

[Rezakarimi66]

@archmoj I updated my package.json file to the latest version ( 1.54.4 ) Nothing changed :(
Could you please share the code that you are using for generating your minified file (https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-gl3d-latest.min.js)?

[archmoj]

@Rezakarimi66
Here is what npm run build does:

plotly.js/package.json

Line 29 in b4a4004

"build": "npm run preprocess && npm run find-strings && npm run bundle && npm run header && npm run stats",

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Namely this file could be of interest: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/master/tasks/bundle.js

[Rezakarimi66]

@archmoj Thanks for your helps. I cloned and changed your code to generate my custom bundle and the result was the same. The only possible way to reduce the size is to compress with gzip.

[archmoj]

@Rezakarimi66 Please see #5301.