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A comment on The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat.

Re:The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat by est on Sunday March 22, 2026 @12:40AM (#47474530)
More like a nodejs bloat rather than JS bloat.

For personal objects I always prompt the AI to write JS directly, never introduce nodejs stack unless absolutely have to.

Turns out you don't always need Nodejs/Reactto make a functional SPA.

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Re:The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat by kennywinker on Sunday March 22, 2026 @01:21AM (#47474725)
You’ve traded supply chain vulnerability for slop vulnerability.
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Re:The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat by yurishimo on Sunday March 22, 2026 @05:21AM (#47475786)
Except your supply chain could also be slop and you have no idea (unless you’re auditing your dependencies, right?).

I’d take vibe coded vanilla js slop over npm dependency hell every day of the week.

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