It cost more than it saved. Two problems, the second only visible once
quantus/common tried to consume this package:
Its index re-exports packageDetect, whose only job is a side effect registering
with @polkadot/util — a peer dependency inherited for nothing. Deep imports
(/base64, /fflate) avoided that.
But it is a workspace package, so a symlinked consumer resolves its dependencies
through *this* repo's node_modules, where @polkadot/wasm-util points at the
package source rather than its build and carries no exports map. Node follows
symlinks to their realpath, so `@polkadot/wasm-util/base64` failed to resolve
from quantus/common no matter which yarn protocol was used — portal: and link:
behave the same once the realpath is taken.
So: fflate directly for zlib inflate, and fifteen lines for base64 rather than a
dependency at all. Deliberately not atob or Buffer.from — the first is
browser-only, the second node-only, and this runs in an MV3 service worker, a
Worker, node tests and a bundled extension page.
The package is now self-contained apart from fflate, which resolves normally from
any checkout. Size is unchanged at 234,292 raw / 109,649 zlib / 146,200 base64.
Refs quantus/wasm#1, quantus/common#2
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012uDUodEcRbBwNRi3UCmw8f
