Feature Request: remove linaria import when using the Babel plugin

[chrisbateman]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
Feature

This is not a big problem, since we can usually rely on Webpack/Rollup to remove the unused import. But this would allow reusable libraries to make Linaria a devDependency rather than a regular dependency.

What is the current behavior?
Example output JS:

import {css} from 'linaria';
export var red = "rslh4hm";
export var green = "g1xf75vt";

What is the expected behavior?

export var red = "rslh4hm";
export var green = "g1xf75vt";

[satya164]

Makes sense. Though if you use any other utilities from linaria (cx and styled), they are actually needed in runtime, so we can only remove the import if you only use css. Maybe it'll be better to use something like babel-plugin-rewrite-require when publishing the library where you rewrite them to some empty local file.

[chrisbateman]

Yeah, good point. I'm good with whatever y'all want to do!

[jayu]

It's a good idea but for rare use cases. But PRs welcome :)