Buffer@6.x.x has caused the http client bundle size to increase

[achingbrain]

There was a new semver major Buffer release which has caused lots of duplication in the browser bundles, particularly the http client.

This should be resolved before the next release.

Instances of

./node_modules/borc/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/it-ws/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/it-buffer/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/bl/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/abstract-leveldown/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/it-to-stream/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/iso-random-stream/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/it-length-prefixed/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/level-js/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/it-tar/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/it-multipart/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/it-goodbye/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/level-codec/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/it-to-buffer/node_modules/buffer
./node_modules/buffer

PRs:

• chore: update buffer dep Level/codec#62
• chore: update buffer dep alanshaw/it-goodbye#4
• chore: update buffer Level/level-js#210
• chore: update deps alanshaw/it-length-prefixed#12
• chore: upgrade buffer dep hugomrdias/iso-random-stream#54
• chore: update buffer dep alanshaw/it-to-stream#8
• chore: update deps Level/abstract-leveldown#373
• chore: update deps rvagg/bl#102
• chore: update deps alanshaw/it-tar#3
• chore: update deps libp2p/js-libp2p-websockets#123

[SgtPooki]

js-ipfs is being deprecated in favor of Helia. You can #4336 and read the migration guide.

Please feel to reopen with any comments by 2023-06-02. We will do a final pass on reopened issues afterward (see #4336).

It looks like all the PRs were merged and this should not be an issue with the latest js-ipfs packages.