reactjs - Tree shaking create-react-app?

Question

I created my React app with create-react-app and now use TypeScript with create-react-app-typescript.

Everything works ok, but the problem is - especially because I use the good but heavy material-ui - the size of the built bundle is quite big - almost reaching 1MB.

How can I use tree shaking tools (like in Webpack 2 or rollup? I don't want to eject already so seems like I don't really have access to the Webpack configuration.

I wish it was possible to tree shake a minified code :)

Thanks!

Answer 1

If your project was built with create-react-app, the latest version has the fix, just update react-scripts to version 2.0.4 or higher.

npm install react-scripts@latest --save

This new version has excellent tree shaking thanks to the updated dependencies. I've tested with both material-ui and mdi-material-ui.