Speed up your package installation process, reduce your disk usage, extend the lifespan of your precious SSD by reducing your node_modules size.

While you are embracing the latest features and security fixes by installing the latest Node.js LTS, packages like eslint-plugin-import, eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y, eslint-plugin-react, and many others maintained by ljharb are still trying to support the long-dead Node.js 4 by adding tons of polyfills. These polyfills are inflating your node_modules size, wasting your disk space and slowing down your npm i / yarn / pnpm i commands. And what's worse, ljharb uses the polyfill implementation even when a native version is available in the environment, which makes the code run slower.

Whether to support Node.js 4 is up to ljharb, but most of you should not be forced to install polyfills for a Node.js version that has been dead since 2018-04-30.

• Your Node.js version is below 12.4.0.
• You are targeting an environment that doesn't have full ES2019 support (which you really should use core-js or core-js-pure instead. It is significantly faster).

You can use the nolyfill CLI to replace the redundant polyfills with their super lightweight alternatives, just run following command in your project directory:

npx nolyfill
# You can also specify the path to your project directory:
npx nolyfill ~/projects/my-project

This will find and list all redundant polyfills in the current project directory. You can then use the install command to replace them:

npx nolyfill install
# Or in the specified directory:
npx nolyfill install ~/projects/my-project

--pm

By default nolyfill CLI will try to detect the preferred package manager of the project automatically. You can manually specify the package manager by using the --pm option. Supported options are npm, yarn, pnpm and auto (default).

-d, --debug

Print full error messages and error stacks when an error occurs.

-v, --version

Print the current version of the nolyfill CLI.

-h, --help

Print the help message.

Add the definition in packages/data/es-shim-like/src/ or packages/data/single-file/src/ and create.ts , then npm run codegen. Notice that rarely used package will not be added, and some packages which are just sub-deps also won't be added.

when you npm i or anything else, get Use your platform's native and it's available at Node.js <= 12, it's time to nolyfill it.

nolyfill © Sukka, Released under the MIT License. Authored and maintained by Sukka with help from contributors (list).

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