Call for Contributions

[swyxio]

our inspirations are:

• http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
• http://youmightnotneedjs.com/
• https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Momentjs
• https://github.com/davidhartsough/you-dont-need-bootstrap
• https://youmightnotneed.com/lodash (but this site uses a bundler)

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links to standards work that has enabled this new paradigm

• esm in Node
• esm in browsers
• http2?
• import maps?

Usecases to cover

We'll need tips for

• node_modules
• Babel
• CSS imports/PostCSS/CSS Modules
• SSR/SSG
• Serverless function
• ?

Related Talks

• ?

Sites/Webapps that don't use bundlers

• begin.com
• pika.dev
• ?

Things Bundlers Still Do Well

• Webapps with >100 modules and deep (>5 levels) dependency trees (https://v8.dev/features/modules#bundle)

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I think if you'd like to contribute some bullet points to hit, or link to your own content, just reply here, or open a PR to the README - we'll just get the content going

[tomByrer]

Best suggestion for server-side: use Deno.

You could do in-browser loading from libs via a CDN. But IMHO after using more than 3 libs, or 1 larger one for a small project, you'll want to tree-shake into a smaller bundle. But until you get to that point, jsDelivr CDN can help by directly grabbing files from a Github repo, & collating multiple libs together. (EG 1 HTTP/1 call to grab React, React-dom, & Material-UI as a single file).

[tomByrer]

Using package.json scripts, good to have comments. (several variations of same theme) https://twitter.com/housecor/status/1249719883329396741

[swyxio]

idk about deno - cant use a lot of node libraries people use, right?

cool tips on the rest, thanks