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The Frontend of the Computer

Oxide and Friends

CHAPTER

The Bundling Challenge and Problem

When JavaScript was designed, it was designed with like modules in mind. And so pretty quickly things like, and this is especially true, as you know, common JS came on the scene. It's just a non, non-trivial problem, especially when you consider that, you know, maybe these 20 modules that they need to render something on the page,. But we have 200 other modules with other functionality that they don't need right now. If we deliver all of this up front, it's going to reduce the performance. How do we break down the code? How do we ship only what needs to run?"

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