Consider moving packaging from webpack to rollup

[deontologician]

Since we're in es6 (soon to also be typescript) it would be nice to take advantage of rollup's benefits in bundle size.

Right now it's not too feasible since we'd want rxjs to come along for the ride, and their add/operator/* modules aren't handled properly by rollup at the moment: https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/issues/1671

Adding this to Proposed so we can consider it later

[intellix]

Webpack 2 has tree shaking, thoughts on that?

[deontologician]

I have webpack 2 working in my typescript branch, it's probably fine for the medium term. The way we use our libraries, tree shaking isn't a huge benefit. The bigger benefit of rollup is that it gets rid of the entire module loading system and puts everything into the same scope. It cuts down on import overhead which webpack 2 still doesn't do

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[vramana]

Webpack has plans to implement the rollup functionality. See https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/2873

[deontologician]

That would be really sweet if they did that. There's definitely a lot more of a community behind webpack

[tvld]

We integrate tightly using webpack and vue.js - good combo ;)