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Espruino is a JavaScript interpreter for low-power Microcontrollers. This site is both a support community for Espruino and a place to share what you are working on.
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There isn't - it's more that the existing solution is there to work with
require- if we only uploaded tree-shaken code then you'd never be able to dorequire(x)on the left-hand side of the IDE. Also I bet it doesn't preserve line-numbers for debug/etc, so could only ever be an option (not the default).Trying to pull in NPM modules could be quite painful - again, we wouldn't want to reimplement NPM, but trying to include NPM, babel, etc in an online IDE would probably make it huge and slow.
Having a bundling solution does seem great though. Part of me wonders whether we wouldn't be better off if I just made it a service on the Espruino website? I could then use NPM, babel, closure, etc as-is. Only problem is that'd screw over ESP8266/ESP32 users because I'm not going to want to spend half my server time supporting them for free. I could happily open it to Patreon/etc users though, but I can imagine it'll still annoy a bunch of people.