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Can you give an example of a bundler that removes dead code and not just minifies it? Dead code removal in JS is a bit tricky, unless we are only talking about
by z3t4 7y ago
Can you give an example of a bundler that removes dead code and not just minifies it? Dead code removal in JS is a bit tricky, unless we are only talking about code after return statements and other low hanging fruit.
- kaoD 7y agoIIRC as long as you use ES modules, tree-shaking is trivial? EDIT: not that trivial https://webpack.js.org/guides/tree-shaking/ https://webpack.js.org/guides/tree-shaking/
- z3t4 7y agoHmm. Now that we have async functions meybe we could also add the pure keyword in order to help optimizations.