Minify `db.json` file

[dosisod]

By minifying the db.json file (stripping whitespace, newlines, etc) before uploading we could reduce the size of this package by about 40KB (uncompressed).

Size based on master:

$ npm pack
npm notice 185.9kB db.json
npm notice package size:  27.0 kB
npm notice unpacked size: 205.5 kB

Size with minified db.json file:

$ npm pack
npm notice 146.2kB db.json
npm notice package size:  26.5 kB
npm notice unpacked size: 165.8 kB

We could accomplish this by directly minifying the JSON output from npm run build, or by having a script to minify the file right before uploading to NPM.

I don't see any deploy scripts or anything, but I would be happy to write a pre-upload script of sorts to accomplish this if we decide it is worth it.

Thanks!

[dougwilson]

Yes, I agree. I have a branch (but looking it seems to not be pushed yet) that actually does that and more, with that exact goal: make the package size as small as possible. It requires changes to even the release process, of course, since it will no longer match what it on the github, but it is in progress 👍

[dougwilson]

Looking at my branch, it looks like I have an intermediate change I can actually push up that reduces the size by 70kb even.

[dougwilson]

I will need to take a closer look at my changes tomorrow or so 👍 hopefully I can land them here soon.

[dosisod]

Cool! I'm curious to see how you managed to get the size down by that much.

[dosisod]

Hey @dougwilson any updates on this?