developit / developit/microbundle
Granular compress option
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Description
I think it'd be great to be able to do this:
package.json
```json5
{
"name": "foo", // your package name
"type": "module",
"source": "src/foo.js", // your source code
"exports": {
"require": "./dist/foo.cjs", // used for require() in Node 12+
"default": "./dist/foo.modern.js" // where to generate the modern bundle (see below)
},
"main": "./dist/foo.cjs", // where to generate the CommonJS bundle
"module": "./dist/foo.module.min.js", // where to generate the ESM bundle
// note the 'min' here 👇👇👇
"unpkg": "./dist/foo.umd.min.js", // where to generate the UMD bundle (also aliased as "umd:main")
"scripts": {
"build": "microbundle", // compiles "source" to "main"/"module"/"unpkg"
"dev": "microbundle watch" // re-build when source files change
}
}
```
Then expand the `--compress` option to allow a regex. So, if you run `--compress min` it's saying "Compress the outputs that contain the string `min`". In the above case, it'd only minify the `module` and `unpkg` outputs.
This'd be useful to allow node users to use unminified code but browser users to use minified etc. It could be made to be non-breaking by making `--compress true` and `--compress false` special cases to enable/disable all.
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Research direction
Start by locating the `--compress` option and the code that maps package.json outputs such as `main`, `module`, and `unpkg` to generated bundles. Check how the current true/false compression behavior is handled, then verify that a regex-like value such as `min` only compresses matching output paths while the existing boolean cases still work.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100