Package management: import from ethers
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Description
@ethersproject's are added to deps via ethers, but imported directly. This was done to improve tree-shaking, but it is making bundling the lib more complicated.
Instead, if tree-shaking works by depending directly on ethers, we should do that instead.
Context (and motivation), from Slack:

it’s the @ethersproject stuff - and because @ethersproject has its own dependencies, those are being listed as well. The regex is a little off (my mistake), and so the subfolder for @ethersproject is unlisted.
What’s happening is that interface devDepends on ethers, not @ethersproject. ethers then depends on nearly every @ethersproject. Even if you move ethers to deps (vs devDeps), microbundle cannot handle the indirect dependency.
The fix here isn’t my favorite: you need to identify exactly which @ethersproject subfolder you’re depending on directly, and add it to deps. The other deps are indirect, and so should go away once you do that. The best way I know to do that is just manual inspection 🤷
Example: https://github.com/Uniswap/interface/pull/3080/commits/7702a2aa750517e8aae64353cf58f7065b0ec03b
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The root issue - I think - is that ethers works because of a hack: it includes all the other @ethersprojects as deps, so they’re included and just tree-shaken out. However, microbundle won’t tree-shake unless something is explicitly listed as a dependency, and ethers is the dependency here, not @ethersproject. It might actually work better if we import from ethers - I haven’t tried that; we’re currently importing from @ethersproject because I thought it was tree-shaking better with interface (see https://github.com/Uniswap/interface/blob/5413303d24bdaadb6a16654f5108cbdd83ad43c6/.eslintrc.json#L65-L68).
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the direct-import and dependency configuration referenced in .eslintrc.json, then compare the dependency changes in pull request 3080 commit 7702a2. Determine whether importing from ethers or listing the directly imported @ethersproject subfolders produces a bundle microbundle can handle. Done means the dependency declarations match the direct imports and the library bundles with the intended tree-shaking behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100