Reduce size?

[simplenotezy]

Could we somehow reduce the size of this library? It's 179kb -- compared to vue itself which is 64 kb.

[gehrj]

@simplenotezy I can try and look into this, the size is so large due to the amount of countries and regions supported. The array of objects being taken in is pretty massive.

[MartinsOnuoha]

@gehrj perhaps you could use Axios as a peer dependency to pull the data from an opensource API since Axios is just about 15.4kb?

an API like this

[gehrj]

@MartinsOnuoha I will look into this

[abr4xas]

IMO, make a ajax request only because "its to heavy" is stupid. I think that https://restcountries.eu gives to much info:

// restcountries
  {
    "name": "Afghanistan",
    "topLevelDomain": [
      ".af"
    ],
    "alpha2Code": "AF",
    "alpha3Code": "AFG",
    "callingCodes": [
      "93"
    ],
    "capital": "Kabul",
    "altSpellings": [
      "AF",
      "Afġānistān"
    ],
    "region": "Asia",
    "subregion": "Southern Asia",
    "population": 27657145,
    "latlng": [
      33,
      65
    ],
    "demonym": "Afghan",
    "area": 652230,
    "gini": 27.8,
    "timezones": [
      "UTC+04:30"
    ],
    "borders": [
      "IRN",
      "PAK",
      "TKM",
      "UZB",
      "TJK",
      "CHN"
    ],
    "nativeName": "افغانستان",
    "numericCode": "004",
    "currencies": [
      {
        "code": "AFN",
        "name": "Afghan afghani",
        "symbol": "؋"
      }
    ],
    "languages": [
      {
        "iso639_1": "ps",
        "iso639_2": "pus",
        "name": "Pashto",
        "nativeName": "پښتو"
      },
      {
        "iso639_1": "uz",
        "iso639_2": "uzb",
        "name": "Uzbek",
        "nativeName": "Oʻzbek"
      },
      {
        "iso639_1": "tk",
        "iso639_2": "tuk",
        "name": "Turkmen",
        "nativeName": "Türkmen"
      }
    ],
    "translations": {
      "de": "Afghanistan",
      "es": "Afganistán",
      "fr": "Afghanistan",
      "ja": "アフガニスタン",
      "it": "Afghanistan",
      "br": "Afeganistão",
      "pt": "Afeganistão",
      "nl": "Afghanistan",
      "hr": "Afganistan",
      "fa": "افغانستان"
    },
    "flag": "https://restcountries.eu/data/afg.svg",
    "regionalBlocs": [
      {
        "acronym": "SAARC",
        "name": "South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation",
        "otherAcronyms": [],
        "otherNames": []
      }
    ],
    "cioc": "AFG"
  }

// this package
  {
    "countryName": "Afghanistan",
    "countryShortCode": "AF",
    "regions": [
      {
        "name": "Badakhshan",
        "shortCode": "BDS"
      },
      {
        "name": "Badghis",
        "shortCode": "BDG"
      },
      {
        "name": "Baghlan",
        "shortCode": "BGL"
      },
      {
        "name": "Balkh",
        "shortCode": "BAL"
      },
      {
        "name": "Bamyan",
        "shortCode": "BAM"
      },
      {
        "name": "Daykundi",
        "shortCode": "DAY"
      },
      {
        "name": "Farah",
        "shortCode": "FRA"
      },
      {
        "name": "Faryab",
        "shortCode": "FYB"
      },
      {
        "name": "Ghazni",
        "shortCode": "GHA"
      },
      {
        "name": "Ghor",
        "shortCode": "GHO"
      },
      {
        "name": "Helmand",
        "shortCode": "HEL"
      },
      {
        "name": "Herat",
        "shortCode": "HER"
      },
      {
        "name": "Jowzjan",
        "shortCode": "JOW"
      },
      {
        "name": "Kabul",
        "shortCode": "KAB"
      },
      {
        "name": "Kandahar",
        "shortCode": "KAN"
      },
      {
        "name": "Kapisa",
        "shortCode": "KAP"
      },
      {
        "name": "Khost",
        "shortCode": "KHO"
      },
      {
        "name": "Kunar",
        "shortCode": "KNR"
      },
      {
        "name": "Kunduz",
        "shortCode": "KDZ"
      },
      {
        "name": "Laghman",
        "shortCode": "LAG"
      },
      {
        "name": "Logar",
        "shortCode": "LOW"
      },
      {
        "name": "Maidan Wardak",
        "shortCode": "WAR"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nangarhar",
        "shortCode": "NAN"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nimruz",
        "shortCode": "NIM"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nuristan",
        "shortCode": "NUR"
      },
      {
        "name": "Paktia",
        "shortCode": "PIA"
      },
      {
        "name": "Paktika",
        "shortCode": "PKA"
      },
      {
        "name": "Panjshir",
        "shortCode": "PAN"
      },
      {
        "name": "Parwan",
        "shortCode": "PAR"
      },
      {
        "name": "Samangan",
        "shortCode": "SAM"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sar-e Pol",
        "shortCode": "SAR"
      },
      {
        "name": "Takhar",
        "shortCode": "TAK"
      },
      {
        "name": "Urozgan",
        "shortCode": "ORU"
      },
      {
        "name": "Zabul",
        "shortCode": "ZAB"
      }
    ]
  }