Faster, smaller bundles using Bundle Buddy and webpack’s CommonsChunkPlugin

Vivek Nayyar
webpack
Published in
3 min readNov 1, 2017

It’s not an everyday thing that you come across an amazing plugin which helps in reducing all your bundle sizes by a great extent and improves your web performance.

A normal day in office and I installed bundle buddy an amazing plugin by Sam Saccone.

For those not aware of Bundle Buddy, it is described on it’s README as:

Bundle Buddy is a tool to help you find source code duplication across your JavaScript chunks [aka Bundles].