This provides significant size savings:
| Emoji set | png size | webp size | webp/png percent |
| ----------- | -------- | --------- | ---------------- |
| google-blob | 1968954 | 1373350 | 69.75% |
| twitter | 2972820 | 2149672 | 72.31% |
| google | 3455270 | 2327834 | 67.37% |
Since these are the largest assets that we ship to clients, it is
worth shaving off every byte we can.
Added type annotations to function parameters, function return
values and local variables. Added neccessary `if` statements to
enforce the objects having proper type before executing the later
operations.
An error type check in the catch block in `update_favicon`
function is added because the statement in the catch block requires
error to be a type `Error` in order to access `error.stack`.
Ever since we started bundling the app with webpack, there’s been less
and less overlap between our ‘static’ directory (files belonging to
the frontend app) and Django’s interpretation of the ‘static’
directory (files served directly to the web).
Split the app out to its own ‘web’ directory outside of ‘static’, and
remove all the custom collectstatic --ignore rules. This makes it
much clearer what’s actually being served to the web, and what’s being
bundled by webpack. It also shrinks the release tarball by 3%.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
Alex Vandiver
Lalit
AcKindle3
Anders Kaseorg