Experience-Monks/devtool

File size concern

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#22 opened on Jan 25, 2016

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Description

This is a general concern that I've felt since building hihat and using it as a local dependency across multiple modules/projects. It feels pretty "dirty" to bring in a 100+ mb dependency just to add smoke tests for WebGL or what have you.

I don't see any clean/easy fix, and Electron file size is going to continue to grow as Chromium does too.

Feel free to brainstorm...

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Brainstorm ideas to reduce the file size dependency, such as making Electron an optional dependency or suggesting alternative lightweight environments for running Node.js programs through DevTools.
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javascriptnodejs
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developer experiencetooling
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JavaScriptNode.js
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