Concern about core bundle size due to react-icons and @emoji-mart/data

[yidianier]

Hi team,

First of all, thank you for the great work on BlockNote. However, I have a concern regarding the production bundle size.

When I analyzed the bundle, I found that react-icons and @emoji-mart/data are significantly increasing the total size (the latter alone adds ~400KB). I’m curious about the design decision behind this, as not every project needs these out-of-the-box assets. It feels a bit heavy for users who only want a clean WYSIWYG editor without built-in icon sets or emoji data.

I tried to set emojiMenu={false} and tried filtering them out from suggestion items, but it seems the dependency is still being bundled. While I understand the convenience of having them included, I think it would be better to make them optional and lazily loaded.

For my current project, size is a critical factor, so I’ve decided not to use BlockNote for now. I really hope this can be improved in the future, as I do appreciate the core functionality of the library.

Thanks for listening!