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`npm install babili` is 33M. Should users know or care what a babel preset is? They just want to minify code.

• hzoo 10y ago
  Maybe I didn't word that correctly. It was created as a set of babel plugins but because like you said users shouldn't know what a babel preset is we have the cli tool which acts the same as babel-cli so you don't need to do all of that. Yes, it doesn't need to be 33M that's just a result of the way it was used (babel-cli is that big) and I'm saying that it's something that we can fix
  • anotherthing 10y ago
    Any plans to release minified versions of babili? It would probably shave 90% off the install size.
    • timdorr 10y ago
      Having readable backtraces when something goes wrong is far more valuable to me than saving a couple dozen MB on a 512GB drive.
      • BinaryIdiot 10y ago
        Then no one would ever minify. Minify makes it faster to download and install (even in some cases it can make the code faster due to some optimizations though I wouldn't bank on it). You minify deployments and, if someone needs to debug, switch to a debug version of the code.
      • timdorr 10y ago
        Edit: maybe there is some confusion. I'm talking about minifying the tooling, not end user code.
        • remarkbabel 10y ago
          The tools should be minified to reduce their download size and make them run faster (quicker parsing).
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