The document outlines a presentation on code splitting and lazy loading techniques for Vue.js applications, including their application, performance measurement, and deployment to AWS cloud. It emphasizes the significance of these methods in optimizing application load times and provides a step-by-step guide on implementation. The talk concludes with key takeaways and resource links for further learning.

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Norbert Nader
Front-end Engineer @ Amazon Web Services
June 9, 2021
Vue.js
Code splitting and lazy loading

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The plan for this talk
• What is code splitting and lazy loading?
• Applying code splitting and lazy loading techniques in aVue.js app
• How can we measure performance?
• Moving aVue.js app to theAWS Cloud
• Takeaways
• Q&A

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Let’s get started!
What is code splitting and lazy loading?

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Webpack's definition of code splitting and lazy loading
“Code splitting is one of the most compelling features of webpack.
This feature allows you to split your code into various bundles which
can then be loaded on demand or in parallel. It can be used to
achieve smaller bundles and control resource load prioritization
which, if used correctly, can have a major impact on load time.”
https://webpack.js.org/guides/code-splitting
“Lazy, or "on demand", loading is a great way to optimize your site
or application. This practice essentially involves splitting your code
at logical breakpoints, and then loading it once the user has done
something that requires, or will require, a new block of code.This
speeds up the initial load of the application and lightens its overall
weight as some blocks may never even be loaded.”
https://webpack.js.org/guides/lazy-loading
index.js
bundle-0.js
bundle-1.js
bundle-2.js
index.js

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Code splitting
using the webpack config

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Code splitting CSS using MiniCssExtractPlugin

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Lazy loading
using dynamic imports

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Dynamically loading aVue.js component
Before
After

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How it’s done inVue.js

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Start with installingVue CLI
Instant Prototyping
Example

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Then install the dependencies
package.json

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Create aVue.js app
router.js app.js
App.vue

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Before code splitting
and lazy loading…

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Chrome DevTools

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Let’s add code splitting for CSS!
vue.config.js App.vue

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Let’s lazy load the routes!
router.js

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Let’s lazy load a component!
About.vue

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After code splitting
and lazy loading

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Chrome DevTools

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Chrome DevTools

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Prefetching and Preloading resources
vue.config.js About.vue
router.js

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Analyzing the bundles
vue.config.js

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Code splitting with SSR

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Install server renderer and express

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Install webpack plugins

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package.json

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vue.config.js

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app.js

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entry-server.js

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entry-client.js

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router.js

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server.js

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After code splitting
with SSR…

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Performance after SSR

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Performance after SSR

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Measuring performance

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Logging metrics
App.vue

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Moving your app
to the AWS Cloud

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Infrastructure
SSR function
CDN Assets (JS, CSS, etc.)
/log
Logs
Canaries
Brower request app page or logs
metrics
Metrics function
App endpoint
Client
Client assets
HTML generated on the
Node.js lambda
The generated html has script and
link tags pointing to asset
Point all traffic i.e. / to SSR
Put metrics e.g. TTI
Canaries hit page
Scripts returned from SSR fetch
code split bundles
User

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Install AWS CLI and SAM
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/serverless-sam-cli-install-mac.html

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Create an Amazon S3 bucket for our assets

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Upload assets to our Amazon S3 bucket
asset-uploader.sh

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Point Amazon CloudFront to Amazon S3 bucket

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Create an OAI for Amazon CloudFront distribution

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Restrict access to private Amazon S3 bucket
cf-distribution.json

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Update Amazon S3 bucket policy
policy.json

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Update vue.config.js to point to Amazon CloudFront
vue.config.js

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Create a Node.js function with AWS Lambda
ssr-lambda.js template.yaml

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Testing AWS Lambda locally
package.json

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Deploying our app to production

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Production

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Logging metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
package.json
metrics-lambda.js

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Deploying the metrics AWS Lambda
template.yaml

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Update our logger
logger.js

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Setting up dashboards and alarms

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Running canaries

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CI/CD Pipeline
Develop code
Build and deploy Monitor and test

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Takeaways
• We learned what is code splitting and lazy loading
• We applied code splitting and lazy loading techniques in aVue.js app
• We learned how we can measure performance
• We moved aVue.js app to theAWS cloud

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Resources
• https://webpack.js.org/concepts
• https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/
• https://v3.vuejs.org/guide/introduction.html
• https://router.vuejs.org/guide/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com
• https://www.npmjs.com/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/
• https://developers.google.com/web
• https://web.dev/
This project https://github.com/NorbertNader/vue-aws-starter-kit

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Q&A
Norbert Nader

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ThankYou!