[JS] Remove unnecessary production dependencies

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#65 opened on Feb 17, 2024 5 comments 0 reactions 1 assignee View on GitHub

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The Apache Arrow JS bundle includes a few unnecessary packages that increase the dependency graph. The culprits are:

command-line-usage: used by integration.ts, json-to-arrow.ts, and arrowtocsv.ts. I think these can move to dev dependencies since it looks like the intent of the scripts is integration testing and benchmarking.
@swc/helpers: Introduced in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/38500. @swc/helpers is never imported. I think it's used for https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/9b931af14e5a710cba0aaa6b899e2ca696bfd785/js/tsconfig.json#L22. If ts-node is only for development, this can move to devDependencies.
@types/node: Should move to devDependencies. I don't think there's any benefit to having it listed as a production dependency.
@types/command-line-args: move to devDependencies
@types/command-line-usage: move to devDepdencies
json-bignum: used by integration.ts, json-to-arrow.ts, and arrowtocsv.ts. Can move to dev dependencies.

Here's the graph of the current dependencies.

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