I tried writing some JavaScript today. I tried not to add any frivolous dependencies. I ended up with 18k dependencies. This is not a joke.
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I mean I could see that argument, but that's not where we are now. In the time when I was writing a lot more JS most of what you saw were things like moment.js and underscore, which are reasonable sizes for that sort of library
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I agree, but it'd have to by necessity. Underscore is at least 200-300 libraries in the NPM world, not including transitive dependencies. :)
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From a technical point of view we should have seen the opposite trend. Back then you were shipping all the functions you never called unless you used the closure compiler which required additional changes to the code. Today with tree shaking it's no problem to have big libs
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