How to decrease size of vendor.js in angular 2,4,6,7,8,9,10?

Question

Angular CLI creates vendor.js and I don't know Why and What is the use of it?? Size of this file is about 3.2MB for a new app!!

Does this file contains Angular 6 Javascript Source?

Don't you think this is big file for loading on internet on low speed connections?

Solution 1

This file includes all libraries that you added into your project. If you build your app on production mode the file size will be smaller.

ng build --prod

Solution 2

Try

ng build --prod --aot --vendor-chunk --common-chunk --delete-output-path --buildOptimizer

I reduced my vender.**.js fromm 12mb to 2mb

Solution 3

Instead of decreasing it you can remove the file completely By specifying the --build-optimizer flag, the cli will disable this file from the build output.

The CLI will now bundle the vendor code into the main.js bundle, which will also enable uglification to reduce the size.

So you will see a small increase in the size of the main.js bundle which is minimal in comparison to the size of the vendor chunks

Solution 4

You may also want to update your build script in package.json to generate a prod build by default. I ran into this deploying to Heroku, since it runs 'npm build' automatically. By default, 'npm build' runs the following script:

ng build

If you update it to

ng build --prod

in package.json, then Heroku/AWS/Azure will create a production build on deployment instead.

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Comments

[Anandan K]

After using Prod also my project size is 8Mb which getting more time to load. May i know what to do ??

[molikh]

you mean files inside dist folder? you can check in that folder which file cause this.

[Karthikeyan]

I didn't give any difference in our build

[eddy]

In Angular 9 , I can't find the vendor-chunk anywhere after running ng build --prod

[DV Singh]

check here: stackoverflow.com/questions/52179853/…

[Azoulay Jason]

No difference for me and vendor remains

[Azoulay Jason]

Didn't change antyhing for me

[Nanotron]

@Karthikeyan then check the version doc. Its automatically done in more recent versions of angular

[Sharon Watinsan]

Nice. 8mb to 880Kbs