Production build specific plugins

[steverob]

I'm trying to use webpack plugins that are detailed in this blog - https://medium.com/@rajaraodv/two-quick-ways-to-reduce-react-apps-size-in-production-82226605771a - webpack.DefinePlugin, webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin, webpack.optimize.AggressiveMergingPlugin

And also I'm looking to add the compression plugin to generate gzip assets. Currently it's not generating gzip versions of bundles.

I'm wondering how to include this production environment configurations into the webpack config. Do I need to configure separate webpack configs for different environments?

Would love some help here.

[justin808]

@steverob This gem is only a means to get from the manifest.json plus the webpack generated file to the view helper. I'm currently working on upgrading React on Rails to be based on Webpacker for 9.0.0. Please try out the beta!

[sourcepirate]

@steverob If you trying to make the build size smaller by compression it would be difficult to scale if the app size gets big. May be you should try using CommandChunks Plugin Which lets you seperate
vendor dependencies from application code.

If you need to generate the gzipped version of your bundle here is some config file for reference.
https://github.com/sourcepirate/devmap/blob/master/app/webpack.prod.js

Thanks.