V8LazyParseWebpackPlugin

This is a webpack plugin designed to exploit the V8 engines treatment of functions with parens wrapped around them. This lazy loads the parsing decreasing initial load time.

EXPERIMENTAL WIP: this is highly experimental so please report issues for whatever you come across.

Install

To install run the following npm install command:

npm install v8-lazy-parse-webpack-plugin --save-dev 

Usage

webpack.config.js

const V8LazyParseWebpackPlugin = require(v8-lazy-parse-webpack-plugin);

module.exports = config;

let config = {
	/*...*/	
	plugins: [
		new V8LazyParseWebpackPlugin();
	]
};

Disclaimer

This plugin is desgined specifically for the V8 engine, so don't expect to have the same effect on all browsers or JS engines.

Further Reading

• Initial discussion in Rollup Repository