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by benoau 622 days ago
Too much stuff in the nodejs ecosystem is based around the premise that there is something fundamentally wrong with node and npm. They have room for improvement sure but they're not so broken I'm going to bother swapping out core components and bet on their long-term support and stability and compatibility and commit to their opinionated choices and idiosyncrasies. It's even worse when you get into the build tools and frontend libraries, bottom-to-top you can add a whole lot of unnecessary baggage to be mindful of and it's tiring, it's like decision fatigue but worse because every decision carries a bunch of responsibilities for everyone else working on that code.