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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 21:59:47 +0100
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:09:37 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> I imagine that the fact that they keep external library dependencies to
>> a minimum makes it easier for them, than if they had a lot of
>> dependencies on third party libraries.
>
> That helps. We did an Angular app and package.json wound up with over 80
> dependencies. Downloading them all was painful and sometimes introduced
> problems. One example was using Protobuf 2.0. Protobuf 3.0 was not
> backward compatible.
>
> We got good at the semantics of package-lock when it became clear that not
> everyone played by the rules of not breaking stuff in minor versions.
>
> I'd done a web map using node for the backend. It had 8 dependencies, all
> of which were stable. Increase that by a factor of 10 and it gets chewy.
>

Shudder!