[codingdave]

Bringing packages into your work is your own choice. You should always be doing an evaluation of the benefit given by a package vs. the bloat it brings to your project. For many packages, it is worth it. But if you are in the habit of installing a package just to avoid writing a widget in your UI or writing some helper functions, then... yes, your projects will amass dependencies quickly.

[jannes]

My main complaint is probably about webpack and its dependencies. Unfortunately, it seems to be the accepted standard bundler. The benefits of hot module replacement are too nice to forego easily.

[mschuetz]

The ridiculous amount of dependencies in webpack is one of the major reasons I went for rollup. I refuse to install anything that depends on is-odd.

[mifreewil]

Not sure that webpack still depends on `is-odd` (at least not directly). Note that `is-odd` depends on `is-number` facepalm. Some people in this world seem to think their purpose is to create as many JS modules as possible.