[sdwr]

> code saved on laptops that hadn’t been turned on in a full decade. The more dependencies a website had, the more difficult it was to restore

is the crux for me. When I clone one of my Vue projects from a few years ago and try to run it, it is always broken. My (new) node version is incompatible with a Vue core library, then updating the core library breaks some other libraries and requires config file changes.

[danielheath]

I wish vendoring dependencies wasn’t viewed with such suspicion in tech.

I store dependencies in-repo whenever I can get away with it; it eliminates whole classes of devops/CI issues.