Consider reducing number of dependencies

[mcullan]

Currently, if you bun add ordapi in a fresh, minimal typescript project, it ends up installing 118 different dependencies. To the extent possible, it would be nice to reduce this number.

I wrote a script that can check all of this in one go. It's attached to this issue. It's currently saved as check_deps.sh.txt right now because github won't let me attach a .sh file, so rename it if you download it.

check_deps.sh.txt

./check_deps.sh -y ordapi@0.0.6 --log logfile.txt

With these arguments, the script:

1. Creates a new directory named ordapi_{version}_{timestamp} or, if no version specified, just ordapi_{timestamp}.
2. Runs bun init -y in that directory to create a minimal bun project.
3. Installs base dependencies.
4. Runs bun add ordapi@{version} or bun add ordapi to install specified or latest version of ordapi. This says it installs 118 packages as of version 0.0.6.
5. Prints out dependencies from ordapi -- it seems to count 98 of these currently, I don't know why it doesn't name all 118.
6. Cleans up the test directory ordapi_{timestamp}

Here is the current output with ordapi@0.0.6

=== Checking dependencies for ordapi ===

📁 Creating test directory...
✓ Created and entered ordapi_20250213_102543

🎯 Initializing new Bun project...
Done! A package.json file was saved in the current directory.
 + index.ts
 + .gitignore
 + tsconfig.json (for editor autocomplete)
 + README.md

To get started, run:
  bun run index.ts
✓ Created package.json

📦 Installing base dependencies...
bun install v1.2.0 (b0c5a765)

Checked 6 installs across 7 packages (no changes) [2.00ms]
✓ Installed base dependencies

🎯 Installing ordapi...
bun add v1.2.0 (b0c5a765)
Resolving dependencies
Resolved, downloaded and extracted [200]
Saved lockfile

installed ordapi@0.0.6

118 packages installed [1020.00ms]
✓ Installed ordapi

=== Results ===
📊 Dependencies breakdown:
   • Regular packages:       91
   • Scope directories (@something):        7
   • Packages inside scopes (@something/*):        0
   • Total visible packages: 98
   • Total packages reported by Bun: N/A

📂 Dependencies list (      91 regular +        7 scoped):
@eslint
@eslint-community
@humanfs
@humanwhocodes
@nodelib
@types
@typescript-eslint
acorn
acorn-jsx
ajv
ansi-styles
argparse
balanced-match
brace-expansion
braces
bun-types
callsites
chalk
color-convert
color-name
concat-map
cross-spawn
debug
deep-is
escape-string-regexp
eslint
eslint-scope
eslint-visitor-keys
espree
esquery
esrecurse
estraverse
esutils
fast-deep-equal
fast-glob
fast-json-stable-stringify
fast-levenshtein
fastq
file-entry-cache
fill-range
find-up
flat-cache
flatted
glob-parent
globals
graphemer
has-flag
ignore
import-fresh
imurmurhash
is-extglob
is-glob
is-number
isexe
js-yaml
json-buffer
json-schema-traverse
json-stable-stringify-without-jsonify
keyv
levn
locate-path
lodash.merge
merge2
micromatch
minimatch
ms
natural-compare
optionator
ordapi
p-limit
p-locate
parent-module
path-exists
path-key
picomatch
prelude-ls
punycode
queue-microtask
resolve-from
reusify
run-parallel
semver
shebang-command
shebang-regex
strip-json-comments
supports-color
to-regex-range
ts-api-utils
type-check
typescript
typescript-eslint
undici-types
uri-js
which
word-wrap
yocto-queue
zod
✓ Cleaned up test directory

[raphjaph]

I'm all for minifying and/or reducing the dependencies but how we go about that?

[mcullan]

handled in #31