Tree Shaking mechanism for SEA

[bayraak]

The simple hello world program made with Node SEA is about ~90 MB on macOS. Is there any plan or feature to have a tree-shaking mechanism that cuts the not used Node API's or system functions?

[RaisinTen]

Currently, I don't think we don't have a feature for trimming out the unused parts from Node.js but if you build Node.js with some configuration options like --without-intl, --without-ssl, etc. based on your needs, you might be able to create a smaller SEA.

[Link2Twenty]

Is there a list of all the --without flags in the documentation?

[RaisinTen]

@Link2Twenty you could try taking a look at the output of this command in the Node.js repo - ./configure --help. It prints all the configuration options of Node.js with information about what those options mean. In case you're wondering, this is where these options are defined - https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/472ffdef73f636cefa0e7015e07499637c34bd43/configure.py#L81-L843.