Hi, It is a suggestion that split core(parse/generator) and cli into separate packages.

This is commonly approach.

• Babel has babel-core and babel-cli.
• Many JavaScript AST tools exist as separated package.
  • ternjs/acorn: A small, fast, JavaScript-based JavaScript parser
  • estools/escodegen: ECMAScript code generator
  • jquery/esprima: ECMAScript parsing infrastructure for multipurpose analysis
  • eslint/espree: An Esprima-compatible JavaScript parser

Pros

• Fast installation
  • Currently, remark depended on native module like chokidar for --watch Watching files #51
  • Build time of native module is large :(
  • We want to use remark as pure JS parser/generator, but install native module.
• Separated responsibility
  • That's why ESLint have not --watch option: Watch capabilities eslint/eslint#2513

Cons

• Maintenance cost
  • That's why Babel apply monorepo approach.

My Proposal

• Split stringify.js and parse.js to into separate package like remark-core
• remark package contain cli that is the same as it is now.

What do you think about this?