--- title: Shrinking VS Code with name mangling | daily.dev description: Shrinking VS Code with name mangling July 20, 2023 by Matt Bierner, @mattbierner. We recently reduced the size of Visual Studio Code's shipped JavaScript by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/shrinking-vs-code-with-name-mangling-bs3svbx8m twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Shrinking VS Code with name mangling | daily.dev og:description: Shrinking VS Code with name mangling July 20, 2023 by Matt Bierner, @mattbierner. We recently reduced the size of Visual Studio Code's shipped JavaScript by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/shrinking-vs-code-with-name-mangling-bs3svbx8m og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bs3SVBX8M.png og:image:alt: Shrinking VS Code with name mangling og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Shrinking VS Code with name mangling **[Visual Studio Code](https://daily.dev/sources/vscode)** · 12 min read · 25 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Shrinking VS Code with name mangling July 20, 2023 by Matt Bierner, @mattbierner. We recently reduced the size of Visual Studio Code's shipped JavaScript by 20%. This reduction means less code you need to download and store on disk, it also improves startup time. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#tools](https://daily.dev/tags/tools), [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript), [#vscode](https://daily.dev/tags/vscode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/shrinking-vs-code-with-name-mangling-bs3svbx8m) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Shrinking VS Code with name mangling","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/shrinking-vs-code-with-name-mangling-bs3svbx8m","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/shrinking-vs-code-with-name-mangling-bs3svbx8m"},"datePublished":"2023-07-20T21:33:23.332Z","dateModified":"2023-07-20T21:33:12.068Z","description":"Shrinking VS Code with name mangling July 20, 2023 by Matt Bierner, @mattbierner. We recently reduced the size of Visual Studio Code's shipped JavaScript by...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/8e6a074cd8dac60505809190c71f7d78?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/8e6a074cd8dac60505809190c71f7d78?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Visual Studio Code","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Visual Studio Code","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/d5adab6ae9fb44d19859748fc30f5e18","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/vscode"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/shrinking-vs-code-with-name-mangling-bs3svbx8m","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":25},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"webdev,javascript,tools,typescript,vscode","timeRequired":"PT12M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Visual Studio Code","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/vscode"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Shrinking VS Code with name mangling"}]} ```