Compile Babel helpers to use @babel/runtime modules #66
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When Babel compiles code, by default it will sometimes inline some
helper functions into each module that needs them. When this happens in
a lot of modules in a lot of packages that are being consumed, it can
add a lot of weight to the JS delivered to consumers.
Babel 7's runtime transform plugin allows packages to compile helpers
out in favor of importing some modules instead, which can be shared
across packages. This reduces the built size of Observable.js from
15800 bytes to 15464 bytes.
I think there's a little more opportunity here to compile to CommonJS
and ESM separately, but I'll leave that for another time.