Use gzip compression for static assets #56
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I noticed that the static JS/CSS assets weren't gzipped. Adding Express compression middleware fixes this (while intelligently skipping the HTML since that's chunked and needs to be streamed).
Here's the "before" on a Nexus 5 throttled to 3G; notice the large JS download time:
And here's the "after":
Great work on Vue! Really love the balance between DX and UX; I wrote a bit about it on Twitter. 😃