NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads

Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by xg15 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @03:53PM (#29246225)

I get the ridiculousness of those tiny packages. On the other hand I also hate to have my codebase bloated by some kitchen-sink "util" package of which I'll use about 0.1% functionality. (while, if I were really strict, I'd also have to audit and track the remaining 99.9% of the code.)

Tree-shaking can help at least keeping the build artefact small, but it doesn't help with the codebase during development.

Of course there is still a difference between fine-grained dependencies and things that shouldn't be dependencies in the first place.

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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by ratww on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:36AM (#29250414)

There is a sane middle ground between tiny and bloated, though. I don't see how using a false dichotomy justifies the issues we're complaining about.

Especially when most of those packages are almost never used by themselves, and are instead part of a meta-package with dozens of dependencies.

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