This hasn't been critical to my project yet but I just figured out that we don't actually need to have the tessel module installed in our project to require it from our JS code.
As in, don't make it a dependency in package.json. Once I figured this out, voila, my package size shrunk about 18 megs. 
This is probably the right page to add that to as a tip. Unless it's called out somewhere else super obvious I'd love to do a PR to add it. Thoughts, anyone?
