Minimize the browserified size about got HOT 10 CLOSED

Full list of browserified modules: https://gist.github.com/floatdrop/acfb074b261288655e45

Top of size-eaters:

• browserify-zlib is 173.3 Kb f9f2807
• duplexify is 64.9 Kb
• buffer is 43.7 Kb

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I started got-xhr for this reason but haven't published it yet. If possible, I would rather build on an existing module than add more clutter to npm.

But with that said, it might be necessary to have a separate got-like module that has a more limited scope than got. Things like:

• avoiding Buffer, and instead using ArrayBuffer since it is more common in the browser
• avoiding zlib, since the browser handles gzip for us anyways (from what I understand?)
• avoiding streams entirely since they add a pretty significant amount of bloat
• just using xhr under the hood

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Update: I'm now using xhr-request in node/browser for non-streamed requests.

For streamed requests, simple-get is pretty good, and half the size of got.

got could probably be almost as small as simple-get by doing something like this:
https://github.com/feross/simple-get/blob/d212b1022d21b49c8ec83acf251d1dc4aeb38ca3/package.json#L10-L12

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66542fd reduced the size from 471 KB to 268 KB, thanks @mattdesl.

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With 6.0.0 version got is almost same size as simple-get, but still 10x bigger than xhr.

❯ browserify -r got | wc -c
  207787

❯ browserify -r simple-get | wc -c
  194566

❯ browserify -r xhr | wc -c
  11147

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@floatdrop Woot! Try gzipping too. That gives more accurate numbers.

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Nice!

gzip can be misleading when you are considering how bundle size affects parse/execution time. 😄

More details:
https://timkadlec.com/2014/09/js-parse-and-execution-time/

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But you should probably include uglifyjs -cm to get a better idea.

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p.s. You can't run got through uglify-js right now because it has some ES6-isms (which also means it will break on safari, IE and the likes).

browserify -r got | uglifyjs -cm | wc -c
Parse error at -:7172,5
Unexpected token: name (redirectCount)
Error
    at new JS_Parse_Error (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/matt/npm/lib/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:22:1), <anonymous>:1526:18)
   ...

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@mattdesl about Unexpected token: name (redirectCount) it is caused by let, see mishoo/UglifyJS#887

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