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[site feature] Display extension size #367
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Hi! I think it would be useful to display install size in WebUI. I always wanted to have something similar to https://packagephobia.com/. I saw thousand of times developers bundling huge .map files or even whole node_modules.
I hope authors in this case will pay more attention to the bundling process. I even saw an extension that had ~110MB .vsix size and more than 200MB on disk. This extension was like installing forever...
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netomi commentedon Dec 12, 2025
that could be added to the More Info box:
Related ticket #1311
netomi commentedon Sep 5, 2026
Picking this up — with a correction to the state of play first: file sizes are already stored.
file_resource.sizearrived withV1_73__File_Resource_Size.sql(#2089, then #2095), is set on publish, and is backfilled for older rows byFileResourceSizeJobRequestHandler. What was missing is that nothing ever read it back out: it reached no API response and no page.#2168 closes that gap —
ExtensionJson.downloadSizeplus a Size entry in the More Info box, next to the unique identifier, as suggested above.One thing this does not answer
The request here is for install size — the ~110MB
.vsixthat turns into 200MB on disk. What ships in #2168 is the download size. The two differ by the package's compression ratio, which is precisely the point being made about bundled.mapfiles and straynode_modules, so this is a partial answer rather than a complete one.Install size isn't stored today. It is computable at publish — the code already walks zip entries in
ArchiveUtilandSecretDetector, andExtensionVersionIntegrityServicesumsentry.getSize()into the signature manifest — but backfilling it means re-reading every existing.vsixout of storage, a substantially bigger job than V1_73's was. That deserves its own issue and its own decision rather than blocking the number already sitting in the table.Happy to open a follow-up for the unpacked size if there's appetite for the backfill.
feat: expose the extension package size in the API and web UI
feat: expose the extension package size in the API and web UI
feat: expose the extension package size in the API and web UI
feat: expose the extension package size per target platform
feat: expose the extension package size per target platform (#2168)