"Code-splitting" for production builds

[sumanthratna]

Note: this is on the order of a micro-optimization since Alpine is already so small. However, it's nice knowing that no unnecessary JS is being sent over a network call.

Feature Request

Along with uploading alpine.min.js to CDNs, also upload alpine.x-data.min.js, alpine.x-init.min.js, alpine.x-show.min.js, etc. This way, if I'm only using the x-data directive, I don't need to worry about unnecessarily loading x-show.

I completely understand if this is too much of a hassle. Alpine is great!

[HugoDF]

I did some work to generate a "lite" build (pretty much just x-show,x-bind,x-on) but we decided against merging it because like you said, Alpine is already pretty small.

I think this might be on the roadmap for v3 whereby each directive is just added to Alpine so we can do what you're saying: include Alpine core, then each extra script adds specific functionality