Minimal create-next-app produces 100kb first load JS

[jio213]

1. npx create-next-app@latest
2. Strip all functionality
3. Build and start

This produces 4 JS files, desspite there being no utility for them.
Is there a simple option to strip all scripts from the response?
Seems like it would be easy to just not include them in the build because the app works the same without js enabled.

[icyJoseph]

I feel like, at some point in the future, this could be supported. I am not speaking for the team, and nothing like that, but the React docs do have this option:

Important

As far as I know, there's no such option in Next.js at the moment ~~~ !!

• https://react.dev/reference/react-dom/server/renderToReadableStream#parameters
• https://react.dev/reference/react-dom/server/renderToPipeableStream

optional bootstrapScripts: An array of string URLs for the <script> tags to emit on the page. Use this to include the <script> that calls hydrateRoot. Omit it if you don’t want to run React on the client at all.

This can be seen in both pages... It just requires a bit more of static analysis, or a user land assertion, that, I do not need React, hydration nor Next.js scripts for routing, I know what I am doing, so please don't inject bootstrapScripts.

But then again, I am guessing a lot here, I am just going of what's stated in the react.dev docs.

[jio213]

Is there a way to use this option in Nextjs? I'd love to have a "stripReact" or even "stripAllScripts" option that would prevent the inclusion of scripts in the build manifests. These options would allow Nextjs to run in a similar way to Astro by not including default JS in simpler builds.

[icyJoseph]

I don't think so, and I don't really want to convey that idea...

[icyJoseph]

I am also not sure, about what these bootstrapScripts, imply, nor how Next.js actually does load the scripts it does, I actually want to take some time to do a deep dive into that area, since, the order of meta tags, and why they come after some scripts, is also some people are wondering about.