[jchip]

blog for #164

[ghinks]

I @jchip & @ljharb I have gone over the suggestions made by @ljharb to this PR and I want to give them my thumbs up.

I only have one item that we can address elsewhere. Even after watching the video and reading the tink repo I'm not completely convinced tink addresses all the issues. It does solve the size problem as it essentially caches but I did not see the fine level of installation that would mean being able to choose the functional part of a package without things such as tests.

[ljharb]

@ghinks with tink, nothing is installed until the first time you require/import it - it's downloaded on demand. In other words, the default disk size for every package is zero.

[ghinks]

nice change allowing both ways without prejudice

[ljharb]

I find a mention of typescript but not babel “with prejudice”; why was that change made?

[jchip]

I find a mention of typescript but not babel “with prejudice”; why was that change made?

babel itself is not a language but a compiler that transpiles other languages to a target like ES5.

But updated the sentense to:

If a package's original code is written in code that require transpilation to something like ES5, then the original source code probably is not needed but is sometimes still published.

[mhdawson]

@ljharb have your comments been addressed? Once you approve we can make sure others are ok and then move to publishing.

[mhdawson]

LGTM

[jchip]

@mhdawson ready for merged?