React-slick: Depends on jQuery

[abhinavrastogi]

This adds 60kb to the webpack bundles. Highly inconvenient!
Would have gladly used it if it was much smaller.

[akiran]

It doesn't depend on jQuery.
It's purely written in react.

Dependency on original slick is only for css, not for javascript code

[yiminghe]

please move original slick to dev Dependencies @akiran

[akiran]

It depends on slick for CSS.

[yiminghe]

can you copy slick css to you project?

react-slick causes our build server to download unnecessary code (slick-carousel, jquery ...).

[ShinyLeee]

I think slick-carousel is unnecessary too..
It depend on jquery and I have to download it.

[Gervwyk]

Is there any way to remove the jquery dependency? Looks like it really adds unnecessary content to the bundle size.

[akiran]

jQuery is never added in the bundle. slick-carousel dependency is only for css

[Gervwyk]

Ok. But that means jQuery ends up in bundle because of slick-carousel, which is only used for css. Can't we only copy the css to this project and remove slick-carousel dependency to get rid of jQuery in the bundle?

[akiran]

We use wepack to bundle this library. We never imported jQuery. So it will not be bundled in this library.

[Gervwyk]

Ok. Sorry. my bad. I missed the ⚠️ Also install slick-carousel for css and font part - which actually creates the issue. When using ant design and meteor, the import of antd causes it to import slick-carousel which is jquery dependent and causes this issue.