Split Node package into plugins

[jamesL92]

Suggestion

More a point of discussion/idea rather than a concrete feature request. If this is not the direction Configu wishes to go in then please feel free to close this issue

Several popular (large) Node libraries are split into multiple plugin-style packages, where users can choose which plugins they require. We could split the node package by config store, thus enabling users to choose which stores they require support for.

Motivation

With an ever increasing number of config store providers, the SDK's dependency tree will continue to increase going forward. This leads to:

• Increased dependency resolution time
• Increased likelihood of version incompatibilities with other packages
• Increased installation time (particularly impacting CI/CD workflows & dependency caching)

As far as I'm aware users will typically only require a single type of config store, in some cases at most 2-3 types. Thus most users won't actually require the ability to support all config store types.

Context

Other projects that package their dependency in a similar way include:

• Babel - https://github.com/babel/babel/tree/main
• eslint - https://eslint.org/docs/latest/extend/plugins
• webpack - https://webpack.js.org/plugins/