A few days ago I opened an old project and realized half the dependencies were there because "future me might need them."
Turns out:
- I wasn't using most of them
- a few were doing almost the same thing
- one package existed just to format dates
After removing 14 packages:
- build got faster
- node_modules stopped looking cursed
- project became way easier to maintain
I think a lot of side projects slowly turn into dependency collections without us noticing
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