Maximum Plugin Javascript Size?

[silversteps]

Looks like there's now a character limit on the size of Javascript components of plugins -- is this a (new) thing, and is there a workaround? I remember being able to edit my whole plugin previously, but now it seems to cut off at about 1800 lines / 65000 characters. The full thing works, but it breaks if it's exported or otherwise edited without re-pasting the whole thing.

[Chris]

Mar 27, 2023 18:38:21 GMT -8 silversteps said:

Looks like there's now a character limit on the size of Javascript components of plugins -- is this a (new) thing, and is there a workaround? I remember being able to edit my whole plugin previously, but now it seems to cut off at about 1800 lines / 65000 characters. The full thing works, but it breaks if it's exported or otherwise edited without re-pasting the whole thing.

The size has always been 64K

Feb 28, 2014 16:20:31 GMT -8 Peter said:

Thanks for the comments guys, I appreciate it.

Am still considering what I want to do. If I do continue adding new features, unfortunately they would come as a new plugin (aka addon), as the size of the code is large, and required me to use a different compressor that I didn't really want to use.

Will keep you updated on things when I decide

Mar 3, 2014 10:19:42 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

I was under the impression it was 64K characters total.. but maybe Tim Camara will have to clarify

Mar 3, 2014 10:37:02 GMT -8 Tim Camara said:

I'm pretty sure the limit is 64K per component, with an overall limit of 10 MB.

Since you can have two JS components per plugin, you get 128K of cacheable JS code space not including any inline script tags that can be placed in header/footer components or remotely hosted scripts (which may deny inclusion into online library)

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