apollo package is too big

[xpepermint]

This is not directly related to vue-apollo but because I write vue application I decided to address this issue here.

My Vue application file size (the final build.js) is around 250KB (the whole application). When I attach vue-apollo and apollo-client, the file size exceeds to 350KB. Apollo client equips you with powerful tools but 100KB+ well... I would say this is huge.

What can we do about that?

[Akryum]

Did you try measuring this with minification and gzip enabled? The vue-apollo package itself is very light.

[xpepermint]

@Akryum unfortunately not. This is the minified size that I'm talking about. I believe gzip should be just an additional optimization.

[Akryum]

gzipping should reduce the size of your app significantly.

[Akryum]

Here is an example on upnkg.com for unminified version of apollo-client:

[stubailo]

Yeah Gzip is definitely not optional IMO - almost every single library is assuming people use Gzip when measuring bundle size. Otherwise people writing code have to worry about doing really fine-grained optimizations that are much better handled by a machine.

[xpepermint]

ok, got it :)

[eduarddotgg]

Gzip doesn't reduces amount of js to be parsed. Not every server can use gzip.