Linting plugin for BundlePhobia

[addyosmani]

Please describe the feature/suggestion

I would like to propose a linting plugin that builds on top of BundlePhobia's alternative package recommendations.

I believe this would improve awareness and adoption of small packages. It would also form a nice bridge between this project and other common entry-points for building webapps (e.g package manager CLIs, framework CLIs, bundlers etc).

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be really powerful if there was a BundlePhobia webpack, babel or ESLint plugin that could lint for usage of popular large dependencies and suggest alternatives. Something that could potentially integrate with an npm/yarn preinstall step so maybe even recommendations are made before users perform an install.

Something like:

$ npm install moment 
$ > bundle-lint found 3 smaller alternatives for your consideration. 
> How would you like to proceed?
[  ] install luxon [19.29KB min/gzip - 71% smaller]
[  ] install date-fns [2.74KB min/gzip - 90% smaller]
[  ] install dayjs [6.54KB - 90% smaller]
[  ] install moment

(could even include brief notes on which support timezones/locales)

There are also lots of directions one could take linting - you could scan their source/package.json to understand if there are specific features in moment being used and suggest the best "fit", saving the author from more research before making a decision.

$ npm install moment 
$ > bundle-lint found 3 smaller alternatives for your consideration. 
> How would you like to proceed?
[  ] install luxon [19.29KB min/gzip - 71% smaller] - recommended (closest match for you)
[  ] list more alternatives
[  ] install moment

Describe any alternatives you've considered

Alternatives today include using ESLint and the no-restricted-imports rule to disallow known large imports. This often ends up a manually curated effort however. I think BundlePhobia is in a good position to offer a data-driven solution to this problem... :)