Well, the whole purpose of a CDN is to make things load faster. Your statement / question is quite confusing.... And loading a minimized version of anything looks like pretty useful to me.
I think maybe he was getting at the bundler question. This is the area where the debate is for me. It's arguable that if some of your dependencies rarely change, then it may be better leaving them out of the bundle and loading them externally from a CDN. This will reduce your bundle size, and all these unchanging dependencies will be cached locally (+ fast loading initially). I believe there are plugins lying around that can make specified dependencies use Skypack in production builds.
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I write about the things I learn in the Frontend ecosystem. Most of them are about Next.js and React.
You can find some of my thought pieces on my blog: (https://meje.dev/blog)
It depends. If you pull a library "from the browser", it is preferable to be minified. If you pull a library "in your npm project", the sources are often preferable, since the whole app is bundled/minified in the end anyway.
I write about the things I learn in the Frontend ecosystem. Most of them are about Next.js and React.
You can find some of my thought pieces on my blog: (https://meje.dev/blog)
Well, the whole purpose of a CDN is to make things load faster. Your statement / question is quite confusing.... And loading a minimized version of anything looks like pretty useful to me.
I think maybe he was getting at the bundler question. This is the area where the debate is for me. It's arguable that if some of your dependencies rarely change, then it may be better leaving them out of the bundle and loading them externally from a CDN. This will reduce your bundle size, and all these unchanging dependencies will be cached locally (+ fast loading initially). I believe there are plugins lying around that can make specified dependencies use Skypack in production builds.
Great! Thank you for pointing this out too. 🚀
Just to be clear again...
It'll be better to do something like
Instead of the normal way. Yeah?
@jonrandy
It depends. If you pull a library "from the browser", it is preferable to be minified. If you pull a library "in your npm project", the sources are often preferable, since the whole app is bundled/minified in the end anyway.
Now, this is clear.
Thank you! 🍷