[wruza]

What's the real problem with 100 dependencies and size of a folder? I can name only non-cached install time, which is irrelevant for a regular developer.

What is "shitty"? Do we have something better than that? Like one big web framework which is both maintainable, DCE-able and solved everything frontend ever needs? Why further modularization of this theoretical module would be shitty?

Edit: Also, what are we comparing to? VS202x takes several gigabytes for a base set of libraries. Xcode is tens of gigabytes now, afaik. Qt is few gigabytes. Enterprise systems also take few gigabytes at least. But when node_modules takes more than 80mb to produce a 0.5mb bundle for a webscale product, we start to complain. I don't understand.

[forty]

I don't mind 100 dependencies maintained by a single large community/project. I hate 100 dependencies each maintained (or not maintained) by single amateur devs (not negative to be clear, I just mean they are not paid for this).