Reduce Install size

[ai]

New version of astroturf has dependnecies for 18 MB. Of course, node_modules install size is less important resources than bundle size. But 18 MB is too big and will affect CI performance and FS performance of using node_modules (text editor will be very slow when you will try to open node_modules).

It happens because astroturf use 140 (!) subdependnecies.

Seems like this problem can be fixed without big changes. Just by using dependencies a little more careful:

1. Replacing cosmiconf to lilconfig (the same API but less subdependencies, we moved in PostCSS too).
2. Replacing chalk with picocolors Move from chalk to picocolors #732
3. Remove PostCSS plugins without maintaince using very old PostCSS: postcss-atroot and postcss-strip-inline-comments
4. Using specific lodash.X packages instead of all-in-one lodash
5. Cleaning some type dependencies. I am not sure that we need all of them. For instance, seems like we need @types/fs-extra only for astroturf development, not to use it always.

[jquense]

Happy to take PR's that reduce size without removing features, or make maintaince harder. I'm honestly not that concerned with install size...assuming we did everything on the list here how much would that affect the install size? I suspect most of the bulk is from big tools like babel

[ai]

I'm honestly not that concerned with install size...assuming we did everything on the list here how much would that affect the install size?

Hard to say. I could put a task to Cult of Martians (our way to help people go into open source) and see the result.

[ai]

Here is a link to 1.0.0’s dependnecies https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/astroturf/1.0.0-beta.29

In 1.0.0 there is even more 140 → 204 subdependencies.

[ai]

The task was created https://cultofmartians.com/tasks/astroturf-deps.html#task

I think in a 2-3 week it will be a PR where we can see the result.

In my projects, I was able to make node_modules less than 30 MB. It improved DX a lot (a few seconds for CI, yarn upgrade in insanely fast, less work for dependencies maintainability).

[krutoo]

@jquense @ai PR is ready. When can it be merged?