May You Get What You Asked For (opens in new tab)

Recently, while working on an in-progress open-source framework called Projector, I ran into a (not particularly novel) issue: one of it's internal packages (core) had grown during this period, and was not nearly as flyweight as it needed to be in the browser. The result was 10-20kbs of unnecessary machinery getting pulled in. I noticed this while running examples. I was consistently hitting a wall in bundle sizes that was surprisingly difficult to get past, even for someone as stubborn and r...