Fix the gigantic size of this tiny software (165 MiB!!!)

[tanius]

This software is a single-page JavaScript application, which means it's ready-built version should hardly be larger than what can be transferred from server to browser in a reasonable time – let's say 2-3 MiB at the most. This is esp. true since all the large JSON files with graph data etc. do not reside here but are loaded on demand from Graphryder API. Instead, what we have is 165 MiB of stuff, and the total installation incl. build environment and Linkurious.js is even 646 MiB: 😮 😮 😮

$ du -hsc * # Most significant lines only …
…
3.6M    app
38M     bower_components
…
165M    dist
…
136M    linkurious
303M    node_modules
…
646M    total

Now software size is a proxy for complexity, and with complexity come maintenance nightmares, security nightmares and other such things. So this situation is unacceptable by every standard for production software with a handful of features like this one. (Notably, this software was not meant to be production software so far, but rather a prototype.)

I just checked: a full reload of the Graphryder Dashboard frontpage is 2.4 MiB uncompressed, excluding the JSON data served by Graphryder API. About reasonable. So most of the other stuff in ./dist/ will just be useless clutter that can be removed in one way or another. For example, I saw a complete Bootstrap API documentation in there.