Feature request: Split binaries into separate packages?

[wojtekmaj]

Currently, react-native-wgpu .tar is quite heavy, 163 MB. The vast majority of that size are generated binaries for Android and iOS.

Unfortunately, this makes GitHub reject this .tar file if checked out into the repository (e.g. for use in Yarn Offline mirror that makes your project resilient to npm outages), as the maximum file size in GitHub is 100 MB.

Many packages deal with this issue (knowingly or not) by splitting shipped binaries into multiple packages, for example esbuild:

This would also open up other possibilities like selectively installing only these binaries that one is interested in, e.g. iOS only, significantly reducing bandwith needed to install the repository.

[wcandillon]

That's indeed something we are looking into. But at this point I am not sure what to do.
I would embrace this solution if for each Apple OS could have a separate package. Right now it's one big .xcframework file.
So a single react-native-webgpu-apple package would be more than 100MB. And in the case of Skia more than 500MB.

Maybe when React Native migrates away from cocoapod, we'll be able to embrasse this solution.

In Skia, we download the binaries from Github releases but these have proven to be extremely slow.

So again, I am not sure what the solution is, happy to brainstorm some ideas.

[wcandillon]

Update: we are very close to have this working for RN Skia. We already split the apple binaries nicely, now I "just" need to publish the packages on NPM. So we will implement something like this for WebGPU as well