Shards
Generates a tree of HTML imports dependencies and split bundles based on the lazy imports
Useful to bundle apps using HTML Imports with code splitting by view but not only. Instead of declaring a view, just declare a lazy-import and shards will create a new lazy endpoint from it and resolve in which bundle it should be embedded.
This way, a lazy loaded view, can have lazy loaded subview or sections, if files are specific to these subsections, they will be bundled outside of the view.
Usage
Your app code
Let your entry file be index.html and look like this:
<!-- Some very important views --> <!--Your very important code--> <!-- Where you grab the lazy-import elements and dynamically import the one needed right now --> Shards will take this file and create three bundles, index.html, view-a.html and view-b.html that will contain all the dependencies specific for these bundles. Nothing view-a specific will be bundled in index.html or view-b.html. BUT if a dependency of view-a is also present in view-b, this dependency will be bundled in index.html.
If view-a or view-b also have in their dependency tree lazy imports, more sub-bundles will be created by shards.
As this tool answers a very specific need, the API is simple. Provide the root folder of your application, the main entry point (as shell) relative to the root as well as the destination directory for the bundled files.
const Shards = ; ShardsFuture
In the future we intend to make the interface more customisable and let build tools (e.g. gulp) integrate shards more easily.
We're also working on a visualisation tool that will display the dependency tree before and after the bundling with data about the size of every endpoint users can land on.