Big Bundle Size from highlight.js

[joehand]

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The bundle size right now is 1.4MB, 581 KB gzipped, for a fairly simple docs site (docs.dat-data.com). It looks like most of that is because all of the 175 (very obscure) highlight.js languages are included in the bundle.

Can we remove the non-common language highlights from the bundle?

Or if not, can we add an option to output a static site without the bundle? For a small static docs site, it doesn't seem like client side routing is worth such a large initial download. I'd rather just have static html.

[sethvincent]

Wow, that is way too big! I'll check it out.

[joehand]

What if you do markdown/highlight parsing on the server and put the HTML in the bundle? That will allow you to remove all the highlight.js and markdown libraries from the bundle.

[freeman-lab]

Yeah wow, thanks for flagging @joehand ! In the very short term, we should definitely at least remove most the non-common language highlights. And I also like the more general solution for moving forward.