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0 pointsdartos1y ago0 comments

I… don’t think that’s true.

Just look at how many downloads some of those packages have today.

Look at the dependency tree for a next or nuxt app.

What the js world did is make their build systems somewhat sane, whatwith not needing babel in every project anymore.

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throwitaway11231y ago

> Look at the dependency tree for a next

Looks ok to me: https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=next

Ironically, most of the dependencies are actually Rust crates used by swc and turbopack [1][2]. Try running `cargo tree` on either of those crates, it's enlightening to say the least. And of course, Node has a built in file watcher, and even the most popular third party package for file watching (Chokidar) has a single dependency [3].

[1] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/07a55e03a31b16da1d085...

[2] https://github.com/swc-project/swc/blob/b94a0e1fd2b900b05c5f...

[3] https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=chokidar

dartosOP1y ago

Not sure what npmgraph is doing exactly, but there are more dependencies than that.

React is a dependency of every next application, but I don’t see it there.

Maybe next, the singular package, has fewer dependencies than a project made with next.

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