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It's very cool to see the JS ecosystem reducing dependencies and I hope this trend continues. Astro has gone from 247 deps in v6 to 190 in v7. https://node-mo
by pier25 3mo ago
It's very cool to see the JS ecosystem reducing dependencies and I hope this trend continues.
Astro has gone from 247 deps in v6 to 190 in v7.
https://node-modules.dev/#install=astro@7.0.6 https://node-modules.dev/#install=astro@7.0.6
https://node-modules.dev/#install=astro@6.0.0 https://node-modules.dev/#install=astro@6.0.0
- Princesseuh 3mo agoThis was actually part of the reason I made the Rust markdown processing, the unified ecosystem is a lot of deps! I still have some plans in this area that should reduce the overall count further, though.
- pjmlp 3mo agoThe ultimate reduction is leaving JS to the browser and write backend code in Go, Rust, Java, C#,...
- hn_throw2025 3mo agoDo you really have to make the exact same comment in every related thread? It’s just tedious at this point.
- pjmlp 3mo agoYes, apparently it isn't tedious enough, otherwise you would have not wasted a few seconds replying.
- pier25 3mo agoAstro is a backend project...