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Has anyone found a way to slim down the release distributable?

I saw someone suggesting here to use br or gzip encoding but what happens if we do not have access to the server (ie serving via github pages)

how does that work? do i need to do anything special from my side?

No, just typical behavior for most static asset hosting/cdns

I think Compose HTML's output is like 5x smaller, in case that's an option for you. (The JS generated by Compose HTML compresses pretty well it seems).

The bundled Skia (Skiko) is the main thing that slows down the load of Compose Web apps, and I think that it's already compressed the most.

For better UX, you can add a loader using Compose HTML. It's possible to have both Compose HTML and Compose Web on the same app.

<@U02AB5P2XU6> isnt compose web and compose html two separate thing with their own components? it's not a straightforward switch, right?

<@U04CASA1DT5> i can think of ways to improve the ux, but ideally i want to get the loading time as close to zero as possible

Yes you will need to rewrite everything if you want to switch to Compose HTML.

For now I decided to display a static preview of the component and then load the compose-web app if compose web is available. Not perfect but getting there

<https://composablehorizons.github.io/compose-menu/>

Yeah, as <@U04CASA1DT5> said, it's an entirely different codebase (although of course you could share business logic using KMP). I didn't know your situation, and assumed it wasn't a possibility for you, but if there are lurkers here who haven't started a project yet, that could be good information for them to consider.