bundle: remove react-native-web
craigbilner opened this issue · 1 comments
Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
feature
What is the current behaviour?
We ship react-native-web in the client bundle but it's huge, together with Apollo our vendor bundle is extremely large
What is the expected behaviour?
A lightweight babel transform that simply exchanges RN elements for Web with the ability to make semantic and style
If this is a feature request, what is the motivation or use case for changing
the behaviour?
Small bundle sizes, less dependencies, better perf etc.
I think we might be underestimating how much React Native web does for us with this ticket. There's a ton of react native specific styling (padding-vertical), resolving of differences between react native's CSS specificity and the browsers, adding units to styles, etc. Then there's also stuff like knowing to load .web files etc. Probably a ton more but I'm just getting to grips with RNW.
We might be able to utilise RNW as a transpile step into standard React code and ship that instead, but I've no idea how feasible that is.