The art of simplicity

During the preparation for a training I found the following great utility library; jwt-decode . jwt-decode is a small browser library that helps decoding JWTs token which are Base64Url encoded. Installation I installed the library using npm install jwt-decode Usage As I’m using webpack I was able to include the package using a require var jwtDecode = require('jwt-decode'); Next step is to take the token and call jwtDecode: var token = 'eyJ0eXAiO.../// jwt token'; var decoded = jwt_decode(token); console.log(decoded);

To optimize your application it can be useful to investigate all the things that are loaded and used inside your webpack bundles. A great tool to visualize this information is the webpack dependency analyzer: https://www.npmjs.com/package/webpack-bundle-analyzer From the documentation: The Webpack dependency analyzer is a Webpack plugin and CLI utility that represents bundle content as convenient interactive zoomable treemap This module will help you: Realize what's really inside your bundle Find out what modules make up the most of it's size Find modules that got there by mistake Optimize it! How to use it inside your Angular app? Install the bundle through npm: npm install webpack-bundle-analyzer Update your package.json with an extra command: "analyze": "ng build --prod --stats-json && webpack-bundle-analyzer dist/stats.json" Invoke the command through npm npm run analyze ...