Optimizing dependency bundling for web

[egekorkan]

Currently, we are serving some packages from our own node_modules and other CDNs in a mixed fashion. This is not optimized at all:

• Browsers limit the amount of concurrent connections so more and more dependency will slow down page loading
• We have a single server that is serving our own node_modules. It seems that it is located in the US (https://check-host.net/ip-info?host=plugfest.thingweb.io&csrf_token=8042bbfe43e5dbff6e783da3b5819e4eeba1fca8), which explains slow-ish load times in Europe where I suspect most of our users are.

Deploying over Netlify or GH Pages can help with this. A small analysis is needed to understand what the best approach would be, as in bundling or not and where to serve everything from. Our preview builds on Netlify load faster than the actual page...

[egekorkan]

Actually, some analysis show:

• Our deployed folder is more than 900MB
• A fresh install via monorepo is more than 500MB
• An install as a package is more than 300 MB

We definitely need to reduce this, it is almost absurd...