Add brotli pre-compression for WASM binary

[Mossaka]

Summary

• Adds brotli compression (-q 11) to scripts/bundle-wasm-docs.sh after the WASM binary is copied to the docs site
• Reduces transfer size from ~17 MB to ~5 MB (~70% reduction)
• Falls back to gzip (-9) with a helpful install message if brotli CLI is not available
• Updates the playground loading message to show "~5 MB compressed" instead of "~17 MB"
• Adds .br and .gz compressed artifacts to .gitignore

Test plan

• Run scripts/bundle-wasm-docs.sh and verify .br file is generated alongside .wasm
• Verify compressed size is ~4-5 MB for a ~16-17 MB input
• Verify .br and .gz files are not tracked by git
• Verify loading message in playground shows updated size

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This pull request adds brotli pre-compression for the WASM binary used in the documentation site, with a fallback to gzip if brotli is unavailable. However, there are critical issues with the implementation that prevent the compressed files from being actually used.

Changes:

• Adds brotli compression (quality 11) to the build script with gzip fallback
• Updates loading message from "~17 MB" to "~5 MB compressed"
• Adds .br and .gz file patterns to .gitignore

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.

File	Description
scripts/bundle-wasm-docs.sh	Adds compression logic after copying WASM files, with brotli as primary and gzip as fallback
docs/public/editor/index.html	Updates loading message to show compressed size instead of uncompressed size
.gitignore	Adds patterns to ignore compressed WASM artifacts

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[Copilot]

The comment states "GitHub Pages serves .br files automatically when Accept-Encoding: br is present" but this behavior is not standard for GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages (using Jekyll) does not automatically serve pre-compressed .br files - it serves the .wasm file directly. Modern CDNs and web servers like Nginx, Caddy, or Cloudflare can serve pre-compressed files automatically, but GitHub Pages does not have this feature built-in.

The compressed files will be uploaded but won't be automatically served to browsers. To utilize these compressed files, you would need custom JavaScript to fetch the .br or .gz files explicitly, or configure a CDN in front of GitHub Pages that supports this feature.

Consider either:

1. Updating the comment to clarify that these files are created for potential future use or manual serving
2. Implementing client-side logic to fetch the compressed version explicitly
3. Documenting that a CDN configuration is required to serve these files

Suggested change

	# Generate brotli-compressed version for smaller transfers
	# GitHub Pages serves .br files automatically when Accept-Encoding: br is present
	# Generate brotli-compressed version for smaller transfers.
	# Note: GitHub Pages does not automatically serve .br files; these are for use with a CDN or custom setup.

[Copilot]

The final ls command only lists the uncompressed WASM file and wasm_exec.js, but doesn't show the newly created compressed files (.br or .gz). This makes it difficult to verify that the compression step succeeded.

Consider updating the ls command to include the compressed files. For example:

• If brotli succeeds, list gh-aw.wasm.br
• If gzip fallback is used, list gh-aw.wasm.gz

This would provide better visibility into what files were actually created by the script.

Suggested change

	if command -v brotli &> /dev/null; then
	echo "==> Compressing WASM with brotli..."
	brotli -k -q 11 "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm"
	echo "Compressed: $(du -h "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm.br" | cut -f1) (from $(du -h "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm" | cut -f1))"
	else
	echo "Warning: brotli not found. Install with: apt-get install brotli (or brew install brotli)"
	echo "Falling back to gzip compression..."
	gzip -k -9 "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm"
	echo "Compressed: $(du -h "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm.gz" | cut -f1) (from $(du -h "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm" | cut -f1))"
	fi
	echo ""
	echo "Done. Files in ${DEST_DIR}:"
	ls -lh "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm" "${DEST_DIR}/wasm_exec.js"
	COMPRESSED_EXT=""
	if command -v brotli &> /dev/null; then
	echo "==> Compressing WASM with brotli..."
	brotli -k -q 11 "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm"
	echo "Compressed: $(du -h "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm.br" | cut -f1) (from $(du -h "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm" | cut -f1))"
	COMPRESSED_EXT="br"
	else
	echo "Warning: brotli not found. Install with: apt-get install brotli (or brew install brotli)"
	echo "Falling back to gzip compression..."
	gzip -k -9 "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm"
	echo "Compressed: $(du -h "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm.gz" | cut -f1) (from $(du -h "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm" | cut -f1))"
	COMPRESSED_EXT="gz"
	fi
	echo ""
	echo "Done. Files in ${DEST_DIR}:"
	if [ -n "${COMPRESSED_EXT}" ]; then
	ls -lh "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm" "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm.${COMPRESSED_EXT}" "${DEST_DIR}/wasm_exec.js"
	else
	ls -lh "${DEST_DIR}/gh-aw.wasm" "${DEST_DIR}/wasm_exec.js"
	fi

[Copilot]

The loading message was updated to show "~5 MB compressed" but the updated message may be misleading since GitHub Pages does not automatically serve the compressed .br files. Users will still download the full uncompressed ~17 MB .wasm file unless additional configuration or code changes are made to explicitly fetch and decompress the .br file.

This change should be coordinated with actual implementation to serve the compressed file, otherwise users will see a message claiming ~5 MB but actually download ~17 MB, leading to a confusing user experience.