Theo's Typesafe Cult•4mo ago

Tree shaking object based API SDK

Hey guys, I use this internal sdk I built all the time, it works great but Im trying to get it treehsaken correctly. Heres a small snippet of what it looks like

export const api = {
get: {
  one: async (endpoint:string) => //..... get one function,
many: async (endpoint:string) => // ..... get many function,
//.... many more get functions
},
document: {
  getByPath: async (path:string) => // ....Get by path function
},
// .... many more functions
}

export const api = {
get: {
  one: async (endpoint:string) => //..... get one function,
many: async (endpoint:string) => // ..... get many function,
//.... many more get functions
},
document: {
  getByPath: async (path:string) => // ....Get by path function
},
// .... many more functions
}

Then in my code, I import my api and use a function from the object

import {api} from "api"
const records = await api.get.many("party")

import {api} from "api"
const records = await api.get.many("party")

^^^ This is a great dx and works great for our use case. However, in the above example, in the built JS I get the API object with every function on there, including the ones I didn't use (get:many, document:getByPath and everything else on the API obj) I understand this may be an unconventional way of developing a SDK, I think classes are more common here, and maybe treeshake better? I just avoid classes at all costs. Is there a way to achieve treeshaking with this achitecture? Obviously, I could just have each function on the api exported without the api object, but the benefit of being able to type api. and having autocomplete for every function on the object is too good

1 Reply

Neto•4mo ago

you can't treeshake a class did you check the build size? with tsup correctly configured you can make something like this

ESM dist/toggle/index.jsx          171.00 B
ESM dist/tooltip/index.jsx         813.00 B
ESM dist/sheet/index.jsx           4.01 KB

ESM dist/toggle/index.jsx          171.00 B
ESM dist/tooltip/index.jsx         813.00 B
ESM dist/sheet/index.jsx           4.01 KB

instead of a giant 100kb single export

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