#Update This information is still relevant but, just use -> Create React App (get back to coding) it handles all of this for you. https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app.
#TL;DR
Do at least this
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
'process.env': {
'NODE_ENV': '"production"'
}
})
That's a 77 KB win -> because by default, React is in development mode.
Facebook also recommends UglifyJS to completely remove the extra code present in development mode.
https://twitter.com/timarney/status/715614327911395328
#Note Check the Webpack 2 version here https://github.com/timarney/react-setup/tree/webpack2
#What is this? I started this as an experiment to see how big React is for a production build via Webpack (without gzip etc...)
React and React Dom are split out into a vendors.js file (standalone).
Note this isn't a React Starter boilerplate. It's an experiment to test Webpack settings.
#Tips / Ideas? Feel free to send a pull request or add to the dicussion using Issues i.e -> #1
#Production Output
+-- dist
| +-- bundle.js (495 bytes)
| +-- index.html (219 bytes)
| +-- vendors.js (141 kB) 👍
#Build npm run build (output to production dir)
#What about GZIP sizes? Checkout http://minime.stephan-brumme.com/react/15.2.1 (40.9 kB)