Specific Locales using Webpack

[arb]

How can I limit the locales that are loaded from './data/packed/latest.json'? I already read and implemented the suggestions in #356 but that only impacts "moment" when it loads up it's internal locals; not this latest file moment-timezone loads on line 2.

Ideally, we would load that "latest.json" file, parse it, and delete the locales off of it my app does not need at build time.

[VeeteshJain]

@arb i had used webpack IgnorePlugin & NormalModuleReplacementPlugin to remove including moment all locals and replace ./data/packed/latest.json with its limited version equavalent residing in my directory under .../src/scripts/momentTz.json.

    new webpack.IgnorePlugin(/^\.\/locale$/, /moment$/),

    new webpack.NormalModuleReplacementPlugin(
        /data[\\\/]packed[\\\/]latest.json$/,
        path.join(__dirname, '/src/scripts/momentTz.json')
    )

this helped me to achieve 30% reduction in my client bundle size(gzip) and 70% reduction in moments js bundle size(429.12kB => 125.92kB) also 92% reduction in moment-timezone bundle size(190.11kB => 13.61kB)

[evanjmg]

@VeeteshJain Could you give an example of your momentTz.json? - whenever I edit the packed version it breaks

[pretorianec]

@evanjmg @VeeteshJain Could you give an example of your momentTz.json? - whenever I edit the packed version it breaks too

[tmoody460]

Here's a full account of the changes I needed to get this working:

• Add replacement plugin

new webpack.NormalModuleReplacementPlugin(
    /data[\\\/]packed[\\\/]latest.json$/,
    __dirname + '/assets/timezones/latest.json'
)

• Add file (watch out for rogue commas if you're editing the original file)

{
    "version": "2018g",
    "zones": [
        "America/Chicago|LMT CST CDT EST CWT CPT|5O.A 60 50 50 50 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     ],
    "links": [
        "America/Chicago|US/Central"
    ]
}

• Make sure you're not double loading 'json-loader' (Module build failed: SyntaxError: Unexpected token m webpack-contrib/json-loader#13) - just don't have a rule for ".json"

[darklight9811]

I think it would be interesting if moment timezone let us feed the json at runtime, that would allow us to filter it and fetch using ajax.

[gilmoreorless]

You can use the separate moment-timezone-data-webpack-plugin to reduce the time zone data in a webpack build. This is now detailed in the Moment Timezone documentation as well: https://momentjs.com/timezone/docs/#/use-it/webpack/

For loading data at runtime, that's also possible. You can load a different entry point to get moment-timezone without any data, then add the data yourself later:

import moment from 'moment-timezone/moment-timezone';

// Load your custom data elsewhere, then...
moment.tz.load(customData);