98 kb minified? Maybe a bundler would be nice.

[bogn]

The framework looks great, but its sheer size is stopping me from using it for mobile dev.

Maybe a bundler with the ability to strip undesired parts would be helpful here.

[avoidwork]

I've considered doing this with grunt, but the only optional objects amount to about 14KB unminified (cookie, mouse, validate, xhr (shim for node)). I could implement that easily enough, but is there value there? The reason more is not optional is because of inter-dependency upon the structure, e.g. data stores must be able to perform xhr, datalists must be able to manipulate the DOM, etc.

If you gzip or deflate the minified version, it comes out to just under 30KB, which you can load from the CDN if you prefer.

I'll modify the build this weekend, just because it should be optional. I'll look into bundling compressed versions of the minified file as well, since that's more convenient for devs.

[avoidwork]

I'm closing this because there is virtually nothing optional, because abaaso is a framework and not a library.