Is there a plan to support chunking?

[google]

Is there a plan to support chunking?

[tbroyer]

"Bundling" is not done by J2Cl, but by the Closure Compiler (or anything else that's compatible with Closure's way of loading modules).

[sgammon]

@tbroyer, yes, indeed. however, Closure Compiler won't "chunk" (bundling is another term) without proper invocation.

i know there is a CLI-based set of flags for defining chunk boundaries, and optimization passes specific to chunking. however, i do not think J2CL is equipped to invoke Closure this way.

[gkdn]

Until this is high level support at underlying rules level (closure), we are not planning to do our own solution.

[sgammon]

@gkdn okay but do you care if users want it? i'm the author of a proposal to bring this to Rules Closure. it would be useful to keep this issue open to track how it might be adopted in J2CL

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LxcJhpv5YEWAO28SiFYdKavIkSno4I4rY8UX3w_krKg

we can't really adopt J2CL without some form of chunking (it's not bundling because we're splitting code here, this is the terminology the compiler uses).

[gkdn]

I closed the issue because it was a question.

Internally, our users didn't need anything beyond the chunking provided by the underlying closure rules. However internally, we didn't provide a j2cl_application rule as well (since most users didn't need such a bootstrap).
Anyway; if we need to update j2cl_application rule to adapt chunking, that's not a problem. We will be happy to do that.

[sgammon]

@gkdn understood