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by chrismorgan 2198 days ago
yarn.lock is just under half a megabyte, and lists 1461 packages that it installs. (232 of them are second or subsequent versions of the same package, which typically indicates unmaintained software. It has five versions of kind-of, and four versions of ten other packages.)
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Ya, that's not great - don't think the parent project of this post has gone off the rails though. More of an ecosystem problem.
I think you should refer to package.json for actual dependencies. But yes, I agree that tool dependencies are dependent on a lot of dependencies. I'll evaluate and reduce tool dependencies, if possible.

That being said, the gzipped js bundle size is fairly small (under 200kb).