Make apexcharts Treehsakable

[DavidMarquezF]

Summary

As of now, apexcharts is huge compared to other libraries when only wanting to use a few characteristics. This will be a big roadblock in the long run because it will mean that any addition or improvement to the library will just make it bigger and bigger: it is not scalable. I know that the charts are not the main part taking up space, but the zoom, panning and dragging are (I think you mentioned about 40% in #567). In a lot of use cases this is not even needed and therefore it doesn't make sense to let it bloat up the bundle. Moreover I think some refactoring could be done to improve size (see https://codeclimate.com/github/apexcharts/apexcharts.js).

Indeed this may be a big task but I believe it is one of the major requirements to have more people adopting the lib, since it is one the most flexible and pretty libraries out there but this issue is a major drawback.

As an example, Chartjs, one of the major js charting libraries, made the library tree-shakable in v3 (see this issue where they discuss how they should it). I do see a lot of similarities on how this lib is used by a user and Chartjs so maybe we can use how they did it as a source of inspiration. They offer both the treeshakable version and the full version, which means that users could still use cdn without a problem.

This doesn't necessarily mean that we have to make the complete library tree-shakable right of the bat. This can be done progressively, by first attacking the main sources of bloat like the dragging, zoom and panning and then moving to the smaller ones.

Intended Use Case

Reduce bundle size when possible, making the library faster for a lot of users.

[maggie44]

Adding a +1 and linking to ECharts as another example of an approach encouraging manual imports of required components to reduce bundle size.

https://github.com/ecomfe/vue-echarts#npm--esm

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[DavidMarquezF]

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[MickL]

Why has this been closed? Apexcharts is not treeshakable and therefor it is kinda useless. Please reopen