If possible, make building without bobril-build possible.

[MicahZoltu]

At the moment, the bobril NPM package doesn't contain compiled output. It only contains index.ts. What is worse is that the package.json references main: 'index.js' which doesn't exist in the package (I'm surprised NPM let you publish like this).

If it is possible, it would be nice to be able to use this without having to use the custom tooling. I believe at the least this requires publishing NPM packages with pre-compiled index.js (this may require other changes as well, not sure).

[Bobris]

Hi, it is carefully stripped to make it as small as possible saving developers disk space. Would changing main to 'index.ts' help you in any way?

[MicahZoltu]

Probably not. The main pointing at a non-existent index.js is just an invalid package.json.

On the more relevant topic of the missing index.js, is there a reason you don't distribute JS? Is there something about the way Bobril works that makes it so it wouldn't work if the JS was shipped with the NPM package?

[Bobris]

It would work of course, just that for intended usage with bobril-build it is useless and it just increase package size. But will consider to include it at least minified so it will not increase size too much.

[MicahZoltu]

What is the concern with increasing the NPM package size? I can understand wanting to avoid increasing the size of the deployed code, but increasing an NPM package size from 300KB to 600KB feels unnecessary, especially when it prevents people from being able to use the library without custom build tooling.

[Bobris]

Will be implemented in version 13.0 roughly in week.

[Bobris]

Published in 13.0.0 beta