Performance issues

Hi, thank you for this great plugin. I’m running to some performance issues with a big project. Due the multiple bundles generated (one with and one without css), the build time increases significant (at least double in production with minification) in comparision with just extract-css-webpack-plugin . It also seems to me, that the no_css get’s generated when there is no css imported at all.

In my case it goes from 6 minutes to 16 Minutes.

[BowlingX]

I was trying to find a better solution for removing the stuff from the initial chunk, without reiterating and removing the styles with the regex. I found something that actually keeps the style-loader in the async chunks and I just apply the extraction to the initial chunk. It was a bit hard to get my head around it due the complex structure and not much documentation, but I think it’s working properly.

All tests also still work and it does not require manual adding any hot reload stuff (it will keep everything from the style-loader).

I did not made any more modifications that you added (for example extracting the async css files and more). Maybe this is a good base to extend your version.

here is the pull-request: https://github.com/webpack-contrib/extract-text-webpack-plugin/pull/546

[faceyspacey]

here’s a short private/unpublished launch article im releasing in a few days:

https://medium.com/@faceyspacey/extract-css-chunks-webpack-plugin-chunkify-your-css-a-few-things-you-need-45cb474cc332

feedback is much appreciated. trying to make this as obvious to people as possible. anything i should strip away or add? or say better?

…guys help me get this (as in the package in general) ready for prime time. we all know its very needed.