Deduplication of common/utils

[jslegers]

Up until version 0.10.x, common/utils was shared by Bloodhound & Typeahead.

From version 0.11.x onwards, Bloodhound & Typeahead are defined as UMD modules, and each module has its own copy of common/utils. This results in unnecessary redundancy / bloat.

There's several solutions for this. Personally, I lean towards one of these options :

• Put common/utils into a third module that is used as a dependency by both Bloodhound & Typeahead
• Replace common/utils by two distinct util classes that are no longer shared between Bloodhound & Typeahead

What do you guys think about this?

[jlbooker]

@jslegers I'd learn towards making a third module that is a dependency of both Bloodhound & Typeahead.

It's probably also time to start looking at something like Rollup or Webpack to more efficiently bundle everything together (without the duplication).

[jslegers]

@jlbooker

I'll keep that in mind if I find some more time to work on this.
I hope you like the work I've done so far...