Ridiculous dependencies of popular libraries (medium.com)

It's worth reading the comments on this one. I'm surprised so many didn't realise it was satire, but maybe that says more about people's expectations of npm than anything.

Recent discussion: yhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12251162

A rouge developer eh. those reds under the beds!

Why this nonsense ?

    $ tree node_modules/ | count
    zsh: command not found: count
    $ tree node_modules/ | lines
    zsh: command not found: lines
    $ tree node_modules/ | wc -lines
    wc: illegal option — i
    usage: wc [-clmw] [file …]
    $ tree node_modules/ | wc -countlines
    wc: illegal option — o
    usage: wc [-clmw] [file …]
    $ man wc

for just this

    $ tree node_modules/ | wc -l
      292

> Imagine if ... the car you drove to work had 291 parts

I would be very worried where the other 000s had gone!

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