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Since tree-shaking is a common term across frontend build tooling documentation, I adopted it as well. Dead code elimination in its traditional form also runs
by aaaaaaabbbbbb 2y ago
Since tree-shaking is a common term across frontend build tooling documentation, I adopted it as well.
Dead code elimination in its traditional form also runs during code minification, which is a separate build step from bundler tree shaking. Having separate terms avoids ambiguity.