GitHub user nolanlawson opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/pull/850
extract css to separate file in production
With this change, we use extract-text-webpack-plugin to extract CSS from
our JavaScript bundle into a separate CSS file.
There are a few performance benefits to this change:
1. JS bundle size is smaller (2.4MB -> 2.2MB)
2. CSS can apply before the JS executes, meaning the browser can start
laying out styles faster, and users see a more progressive loading experience.
In our case this is just our gray background instead of a white background, but
at least it's something.
Before:

After:

You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/nolanlawson/couchdb-fauxton extract-css
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/pull/850.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #850
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commit 7079b1d22bbb9ca3755dc5f4ad47f4279e4ae352
Author: Nolan Lawson <[email protected]>
Date: 2017-02-15T04:18:01Z
extract css to separate file in production
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