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Re:The Deno Company by ggregoire on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:46PM (#26626426)
So if you need that package in your 10 projects, do you copy those 20 lines of code in your 10 projects? Yikes. Then what happens when it requires a change? Do you make the change in all your projects? Double yikes. When it becomes 30 lines, do you still copy/paste those 30 lines in all your projects? Do you also copy/paste the tests related to those 30 lines in all your projects? ...

Having reusable code wrapped into packages is basic software engineering.

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Re:The Deno Company by nightski on Monday March 29, 2021 @10:21PM (#26630672)
Or you create a library which contains a collection of 10-20 line of code modules and share it among your projects.
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Re:The Deno Company by ggregoire on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:27PM (#26630995)
Yes I agree it's better to have one library with 20 helper functions than 20 libraries with 1 function each. Think Lodash.

Although some people will then complain about the size of the library...

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Re:The Deno Company by speedgoose on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:37AM (#26631302)
Yes. Every Lodash function is available in its own npm package too. I use it like this, I rather have 4 lodash packages than the big whole lodash library in one package with almost everything left unused.
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Re:The Deno Company by Master_Odin on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:31AM (#26634394)
These will go away in v5 (if a v5 is ever released) and is not recommended if using a bundler as it'll end up wasting space rather than saving as it'll include duplicate code that each individual function could share.

https://lodash.com/per-method-packages

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Re:The Deno Company by speedgoose on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:43AM (#26643900)
Thanks for the information. I think it will be about time to completely remove lodash from my code bases.
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Re:The Deno Company by runawaybottle on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:38AM (#26631753)
JS libraries only did that to reduce bundle size being sent to the browser. It’s done out of necessity, not because it makes any sense.

Exporting out one method at a time is pretty absurd.

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Re:The Deno Company by speedgoose on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:58AM (#26631851)
Lodash has a lot of features that are not needed anymore or even dangerous sometimes. If you don't need them, why would you install them?
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Re:The Deno Company by runawaybottle on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:18AM (#26631968)
Because it’s simply not a big deal on the server.
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