Slim Dependencies

Based on a previous discussion. This is a short list of some of what can be done to reduce some of the larger items that increase the overall size of react-scripts. Excluded are smaller, opinionated, or rejected fixes.

• Currently, three versions of acorn are used. 4.0.3 (560 KB), used by espree, 3.3.0 (520 KB), used by acorn-jsx and webpack, and ~2.7.0~ 4.0.8 (560 KB), used by acorn-globals and jsdom.
  • If #183 happens, the version of webpack required will require the same version of acorn that espree uses.
  • An issue has been raised for acorn-jsx to bump their required version of acorn, but there has been no response.
  • The latest release of acorn-globals requires the same version of acorn that webpack and acorn-jsx require, but jsdom uses an older version.
  • An issue has been raised for espree to bump their required version of acorn.
• The version of recursive-readdir required specifically requires "minimatch": "3.0.2", preventing it from deduping with the "minimatch": ">= 3.0.3" in eslint-plugin-import. Which normally wouldn’t be that much of a problem, but yarn seems to put minimatch@3.0.2 in the base node_modules folder while placing minimatch@3.0.3 in the node_modules folders of babel-core, eslint-plugin-import, glob, fstream-ignore, multimatch, readdirp, and sane, meaning the same version of a ~30 KB dependency is copied six times over. Fixed with #1560.
• browserify-zlib packages ~110 KB of tests. A PR has been filed.
• escope depends on es6-map and es6-weak-map. These two packages, along with their dependants d, es5-ext, es6-iterator, es6-set, and es6-symbol, and event-emitter take up ~560 KB. An issue has been filed on this, but escope does not seem to be actively maintained. It seems eslint will fork has forked escope for the next version, which does not contain the polyfills.
• istanbul-reports packages a .nyc_output folder of ~310 KB. A PR has been filed.
• jsx-ast-utils packages a yarn.lock of ~110 KB. An issue has been filed.
• The version of node-notifier currently used by jest required includes a CLI that is not used and depends on a framework that is not used elsewhere in react-scripts. https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/2718, which is included in jest@19.0.0, resolved this.

[mhart]

You can take a high-level view here: http://pkgsize.com/react-scripts.html

jest, webpack, autoprefixer and eslint are the four largest contributors.

autoprefixer largely due to the ever increasing caniuse-db: http://pkgsize.com/autoprefixer.html (is autoprefixer really a must-have?)

jest mostly due to jest-cli mostly due to jsdom stuff and istanbul-api: http://pkgsize.com/jest-cli.html

… and they all include a whole bunch of babel libs – of which core-js makes up a large part: http://pkgsize.com/babel-runtime.html

[wtgtybhertgeghgtwtg]

jest@19.0.0 has been released, which contains the node-notifier bump. It’s also about a megabyte smaller.