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[hdl-helsinki]

font-awesome increases almost 1mb the size of my production script.

think it would be better to load the icons via css or, at least, remove the unneeded icons.

Thank you

[craigh411]

Absolutely, I will be sorting this out as soon as I get the chance. The font awesome icons need to be SVG paths, but it certainly isn't necessary to import all icons, so I will look at the best way to remove these from the bundle while still allowing a simple method of importing only the required icon. I have a couple of ideas, so expect an update soon.

[hdl-helsinki]

Thank you very much.

Maybe you could parse the SVG icons from bootstrap CDN: https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.svg

[dmaicher]

Any update on this issue? 😊

I would also like to use your plugin but my js package size increases by 720KB (minified) which is not acceptable for me.

I only really want to use the ImageRating without all the icon stuff.

[craigh411]

This issue has now been resolved in Version 2.0 and vue-rate-it is now 18.6 KB. Because it was the font-awesome glyphs that were causing the file bloat there are some changes to how the fa-rating component works, which are documented in the release notes. All other rating components work the same as before, so there shouldn't be any issues upgrading to 2.0 if you are using those.