Adding gZip compression plugin

I am following this tutorial on adding a gZip compression to webpack: http://forum.vuejs.org/topic/4059/adding-gzip-to-webpack-using-compression-plugin

Wanted to check if I am doing this correctly by only adding it to the webpack.config.prod.js or should I also add it to others?

[caranicas]

@jrodl3r its not something that I had previously concerned myself with, but there doesn’t seem to be much of a downside to adding it. Losing IE6 support ??

@IljaDaderko and I both ran into the issue when Google brought it up. I don’t blindly follow everything Google says, but if they are saying it would be beneficial to gzip your assets to delivery your site more quickly, I think they probably know what they are talking about.

And then I was just listening to the latest episode of javascrip jabber and they had Yehuda Katz on as a guest talking about Ember. He said the point of a framework is to solve problems that people didn’t know they had. I think compression falls under this. I think as long as we declare it in the readme under features it should be cool. Those that are too naive to know what it is will receive the benefits of it, and anyone that purposefully interested in not compressing their assets would you could safely assume have the skills needed to know where to look to remove it.

@choonkending As a side note. if we could get the [page speed(https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Freact-webpack-node.herokuapp.com%2F&tab=mobile) numbers a better then we could actually advertise that as a feature as well.

[caranicas]

@jrodl3r care to offer a pull request with that added in?