I recently added the Meteor appcache package and since I had the following error message:
** You are using the appcache package but the total size of the
** cached resources is 7.6MB.
**
** This is over the recommended maximum of 5 MB and may break your
** app in some browsers! See http://docs.meteor.com/#appcache
** for more information and fixes.
It is hard to believe that my scripts have that size, and my /public is completely empty. In Firefox I went to about:cache and looked at the appcache - but I only saw my script files there, though it might have included outdated versions of the same file. [Searching for localhost:3000/packages/jquery.js yielded two results, with different IDs.] No script file was bigger than 200KB so I can hardly imagine reaching 7.6MB.
Is this only development related and if not, how else can I see what Meteor is putting in the appcache to reach this size?
In production, the appcache will be smaller.
You can view the appcache for an individual page in Chrome by going to View > Developer > Developer Tools, then Resources > Application Cache. (about:cache in Firefox appears to show the cache for all sites.)
These are my findings:
When I run my site during development, the largest file is jQuery which takes up 1.2 MB (a bit odd considering the unminified jQuery is only about 250k).
When I run my site in production (using meteor run --production or deploying the site for real), the largest file is a single 756k JavaScript file. This leaves plenty of room for images and such.