Remove lodash as an entire dependency

[ORESoftware]

I just ran

npm la lodash in my project and I see this

suman-utils@0.0.73121
│ /Users/alexamil/WebstormProjects/oresoftware/sumanjs/suman-utils
│ Shared module within the Suman test runner ecosystem
│ git+https://github.com/sumanjs/suman-utils.git
│ https://github.com/sumanjs/suman-utils#readme
└─┬ async@2.5.0
  │ Higher-order functions and common patterns for asynchronous code
  │ git+https://github.com/caolan/async.git
  │ https://github.com/caolan/async#readme
  └── lodash@4.17.4 
      Lodash modular utilities.
      git+https://github.com/lodash/lodash.git
      https://lodash.com/

so it looks like async depends on lodash, but when I look at the async v2.6.0 package.json, I don't see lodash as a dependency.

I was simply wondering if async could depend on:

lodash.x // import only the functions from lodash that async needs

instead of importing all of lodash.

let me know how async does it, thanks

[ORESoftware]

Just kidding, my bad, I was looking at devDependencies, not dependencies, I see lodash here:

https://github.com/caolan/async/blob/master/package.json#L21

would it reasonable for async to depend on the 10 functions that async needs instead all of lodash..?

or is that not really an option? It might not even be beneficial, I just would like to avoid including all of lodash in some of my projects, if possible

[aearly]

See #1283

We also found the requiring a handful of lodash.foo modules is a false economy -- it's actually slower to download/install.

[ORESoftware]

yeah personally I am more concerned about footprint on disk than install speed, but yeah

[fmntf]

I also have the disk footprint issue. async is 840k, lodash 5.1M!

[ORESoftware]

Yeah, there must be a way to just copy the functionality that we need from lodash without importing the whole lib. Webpack will trim stuff down when deploying to browser, but as far as Node.js/diskspace, that currently is suffering a lot.

I realize this is an issue with lodash, but if async and others can tell the lodash author about the problem that'd be great.