I am working on an app that will display user-provided text. I want to be able to provide user with a translation of specific words they select in the text, using a dictionary.
A dictionary is a json file, about 15MB unzipped, about 5MB zipped.
I would like to ship the app with dictionary packaged in, so that users wouldn’t have to download anything.
I considered several options:
- just import json file in the code (
import dictJson from "./dict.json";). This makes the “ionic build” to go OOM (even after giving node 8Gb of RAM) - put the json file into an asset folder and load it from there at runtime
I have no idea if asset folder is supposed to be used like this. I have no idea how to read from asset folder. The documentation of Ionic does not provide much help on this subject.
I see some suggestions online to use http.get to access the asset, and other people replying it’s no longer supported, but I found nothing trustworthy enough to be quoted here.
I would like to know what is the standard, supported way to package a static resource with an app and load it at runtime, and what is the size limit for such a static resource. Thank you
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