Is it possible to remove moment.js dependency?

[shankara403]

I'm currently using chart.js for very simple and lightweight Bar and Pie generation with React using react-chartjs-2 Recently, I've noticed that the moment.js dependency of chart.js is biggest chunk in my webpack bundle as shown below:

Overall bundle

Moment.js depenencies

As per the docs: http://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/axes/cartesian/time.html seems to be the reason why moment.js is included in the first place. But fortunately for me, I do use any time scales. All I use is bar and pie with non-time labels and data.

Question: I was wondering, if there is any solution to prevent this dependency from being loaded in all the non-time chart cases. Further, I wish to enquire if I can import only specific library from chart.js or does

import {Bar,Pie} from 'chart.js'

strictly imports only those 2 without any unwanted dependencies?

[benmccann]

Also discussed in #4303

[etimberg]

An alternative would be to block the loading of moment during build. Not ideal, but it might work

[etimberg]

Closing as duplicate of #4303 since it's related.