reduce lib size

[giuseppeg]

It seems that the library is 1.38 MB, is there any chance to shrink it?
I think that the lib is very interesting but I wouldn't be able to use it if it is that big in size.

[aknuds1]

A minified browserify bundle of the latest version weighs in at 268k for me, produced like this: browserify -p [ minifyify --no-map ] -o dist/bundle.js index.js.

Maybe you could produce a PR for making it even smaller?

[aknuds1]

I was able to reduce the minified size to 152k actually, after being more specific with what we import from htmlparser2 and by eliminating our dependency on the ent library.

[giuseppeg]

awesome thank you! I think that you forgot to build an publish dist.
I will try with rollup when I have a spare 30 mins :)

[aknuds1]

I'm actually not sure what's the purpose of the dist/ bundle, to be quite honest. It was there when I took over the project, and I'm thinking people would have better ways of including the lib in their project by now. Do you see any need for it?

[giuseppeg]

No I don't see any point in keeping the dist folder in the repo.
However I would add the files field in package.json and a build script to bundle the lib before publishing (prepublish) and expose it as an UMD module.
Keeping tests and the source code in the npm package is not necessary.