With the SharePoint Framework Toolkit extension, you can create and manage your SharePoint Framework solutions on your tenant. All actions you need to perform during the development flow are at your fingertips.
for now before we proceed with a similar action we need to wait for VS Code to support es modules.
currently as I checked trimming down CLI is not that beneficial and rather problematic in a long run
The aim is to reduce extension size by investigating size of the used npm packages https://tsh.io/blog/reduce-node-modules-for-better-performance/