Hello everyone, I'm Bharath from the National Institute of Tiruchirappalli, India (NIT Trichy). I would like to work on this issue.

• Surely, removing jQuery and unnecessary modules reduces the build size and if jQuery plugins are not used then it is very easier to replace jQuery with VannilaJS.
• If the bundle size is very large, we can split it into multiple chunks. Separating bundles into custom and vendor chunks reduces the size even more.
• If we have multiple entrypoints to the application, splitting the bundle based on their entrypoints reduces the build time and loading time.
• Gulp can be removed and can be replaced with Grunt but even that won't reduce the size much. But removing gulp and managing all tasks with webpack itself will reduce the size I guess.

First I will set up the project and get used to the code and will work on the first issue. It would be nice if someone approves and guide me in setting up the project. Thank you!
You can checkout my other public works in https://github.com/BharathKumarRavichandran. :)

Hi! If you sent me your email address, I can invite you to the project Slack where you can ask for help if you run into any trouble setting it up. Here are the setup instructions: https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard/blob/master/docs/setup.md

Yeah sure, my email address is bharathkumarravichandran@gmail.com. And thanks for the setup instruction and I will ping you after I finish setting up the project.

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@Ragesoss: Could you please answer the last comment? Thanks in advance!