[simjnd]

Very cool, but man pulling 900+ dependencies to build and run this thing feels awful. The NPM culture is out of control.

[anduc]

Haha, I didn't notice this! Yeah, only Vite will reduce the dependencies a lot, but I'm not sure which one is the biggest here to talk about

Will try to the deps simpler later, after all this is about a little time of work

[thelastparadise]

> Will try to the deps simpler later, after all this is about a little time of work

Word of tip, you may not want to jump on every last suggestion from the peanut gallery instantly

[ashishb]

JS standard library is very limited. So, pulling in third party dependencies to even left pad a string is normal.

[throwaway63820]

you mean the native `str.padStart(targetLength, padString)`

[zamadatix]

To be fair (as one who leans pretty heavy in favor of the JS world) .padStart() was only added in response to the aforementioned left-pad fiasco. The language adding that was more a face saving measure from the blowback than an attempt to fix the actual problems.

Despite all that, left-pad still gets > 1 million weekly downloads on npm.