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Overview

Preload heavy bundles before they're needed to reduce perceived latency.

Impact

  • Priority: MEDIUM
  • Performance: reduces perceived latency

Usage Examples

Preload on hover/focus

tsx
function EditorButton({ onClick }: { onClick: () => void }) {
  const preload = () => {
    if (typeof window !== "undefined") {
      void import("./monaco-editor")
    }
  }

  return (
    <button onMouseEnter={preload} onFocus={preload} onClick={onClick}>
      Open Editor
    </button>
  )
}

When user hovers over the button, the editor preloads. By click time, it's already ready.

Preload when feature flag enabled

tsx
function FlagsProvider({ children, flags }: Props) {
  useEffect(() => {
    if (flags.editorEnabled && typeof window !== "undefined") {
      void import("./monaco-editor").then((mod) => mod.init())
    }
  }, [flags.editorEnabled])

  return <FlagsContext.Provider value={flags}>{children}</FlagsContext.Provider>
}

Key Points

  • Detect user intent: Leverage signals like hover, focus
  • Timing: Start loading before actual use
  • SSR optimization: typeof window !== 'undefined' check required
  • void: Ignore Promise for fire-and-forget pattern

Preload Triggers

  • onMouseEnter: Mouse hover
  • onFocus: Keyboard focus
  • feature flag: Feature activation
  • route change: Anticipate next page
  • idle time: Browser idle time

Cautions

  • Too aggressive preloading wastes bandwidth
  • Mobile has no hover, need alternative signals
  • Consider network conditions (slow 3G, etc.)

Perceived Performance Improvement

When user clicks button:

  • Without preload: Loading indicator → wait → content
  • With preload: Instant content display

Tags: bundle, preload, user-intent, hover