feat: still upload manifest bundles as a zip and extract on server

[tellisnz]

Current problem

We have a fair amount of statically exported next.js pages to upload as part of a delta update - the upload can take a fair old while doing the upload file by file:

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Preferred solution

It might be more efficient to read the generated manifest, zip the referenced files, upload that, then have the server extract and validate?

Alternative options

No response

Additional context

Might be sort of related to capawesome-team/capacitor-plugins#310 depending on what was being considered there.

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[robingenz]

Thank you for creating this issue. I will leave the issue open and look into it when I have a chance. However, it is not a top priority at the moment, as in most cases the artifact type zip is the better choice anyway. manifest should only be used if the bundle is very large and only a few files change regularly. This is not the case in most situations.

[tellisnz]

that's our exact use case - the bundle is 100MB+ and files randomly only slightly change regularly - we are keen to ensure users have these regularly, but don't want them downloading a 100MB zip all the time