Built-in support for client-side decompression of precompressed resources

[mrpmorris]

Problem

Regarding this advice to access compressed DLLs for static hosted websites
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/host-and-deploy/webassembly?view=aspnetcore-3.1#compression

When publishing to a static website it is obvious that building for Release results in smaller files than building for Debug. However, it is not obvious that we should then go to the Microsoft Docs pages and see if there is some JavaScript to use in order to reduce the download size even further.

Suggestion

Perhaps when creating a Blazor WASM app and ASP.NET Hosted is not selected, the template for the Index.html should include the suggested script in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/host-and-deploy/webassembly?view=aspnetcore-3.1#compression by default.

It's better that the JS is there because it is prominent. The developer then has the option of removing it if they wish.

I imagine seeing a 14 MB download on first experience of using Blazor for a Release build would be enough to put many people off using it.

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[mrpmorris]

@guardrex The host might not support web.config, they are static files that can be hosted anywhere.

[guardrex]

@mrpmorris Sorry about that. Not related. My bad. I'll remove that remark here.