[Timon3]

I understand this thought for external dependencies, but dependencies also includes internal ones, which I don't see a reason to reduce. Modularity and re-usability of individual pieces of code are a good sign for me.

[tomtheelder]

I assume they mean external dependencies when they say that. I'm not sure what the point of the statement would be if it included internal ones.

[Timon3]

Dependency managers like NPM don't differentiate between internal and external dependencies. I assumed that the Svelte devs were referring to this. Vue for example only has internal dependencies, but NPM shows them as any other: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue?activeTab=dependencies

[benmccann]

It's referring to all transitive dependencies - not just direct dependencies. More like this: https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/vue

[Timon3]

Good point, didn't want to make it seem different! Just wanted to show that internal dependencies are also tracked as any other dependency.