Idea: Add a CI bot to measure and report build size on PRs

[7jameslondon]

The size of the final build is an important metric when evaluating changes to the project. I think it would be useful to have a CI workflow that runs on pull requests and:

• Builds the final HTML for both the PR and its base branch.
• Measures and compares their file sizes.
• Posts a small table on the PR showing the base size, PR size, and percentage change.

This would make it easier to assess the impact of new PRs and provide more useful information than a simple threshold check such as “Is the build below 1 MB?” When additional commits are pushed, the bot could update its existing comment rather than posting a new one.

Here is an example from my bento-inspired project.

Any feedback would be appreciated. If there’s interest, I’d be happy to implement this and open a PR.

[nyblnet]

This is a great idea. I have this as a part of my release workflow, but would be great to have this baked into the CI with more contributors in the project.

Great project by the way. My partner is an analytical chemist and will surely find it useful.

[7jameslondon]

Great! I will submit a PR.

Also thanks! It is still a very new project but I hope I can turn it into something useful. It was 100% inspired by this fantastic project you created!