[mhagemeister]

Author here.

Thanks for the kind words! It's feedback like this that encourages me to keep writing about it.

I share your experiences regarding babel helpers and haven't found a good solution myself. Similar to you, I often patch unnecessary stuff out via patch-package, but that approach doesn't scale well.

[no_wizard]

I use path resolution, it tends to scale better (not great but better) for Babel helpers because ‘Babel-runtime’ can 100% be re-mapped to ‘@babel/runtime’. Same with corejs 2 -> 3, they just need path mapping.

Patching packages is definitely something I still have to do to strip polyfills and convert CJS to ESM if I can’t simply re-compile source