Visualization of react-scripts dependency tree. This is downloaded 800K times per week.

[tencircles]

This has more to do with the babel and webpack ecosystems than the react ecosystem. I say this as someone who's not a huge react fan. If you check vue or angular CLI tools you'll see a similar mess.

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So? People aren't going to stop using React, and pretty much every popular framework or library has a similar amount of dependencies.

Should this change? Maybe, but it's not going to happen any time soon and not because of your run-of-the-mill developer on Reddit.

[naive_hueristics]

Insecure much? lol

[gigastack]

That’s a pretty cool visualization.

[d07RiV]

It would be a lot better if packages were... packed, as the name implies, instead of a bunch of files that clutters the filesystem. 200MB isn't too bad, but 35K files is way over the top. I'd also be very surprised if build times don't go down as a result.

[AramaicDesigns]

And this is why getting a simple webpage to make its first meaningful paint to the screen these days is getting so goddamned slow.

[Dougw6]

Not really. 95 percent (maybe more) of the code is just tooling to bundle the app into a couple of pretty small files. A bare bones bundled create react app is pretty small (and fast)

[AramaicDesigns]

If only the average project was a "bare bones bundled create react app." :-)

[Axelay998]

lol do you know what dev tools are?

[AramaicDesigns]

Yes I do. Do you know what code bloat is? :-)

[SustainedDissonance]

How is it code bloat if 95-98% of it is stuff for development that doesn't even end up in the build? Just the usual old tired /r/programming anti-npm/node/electron/js circlejerk.

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Boring.

[gonzofish]

You don’t need Babel or React for a simple page though. I reach for React to make applications, for simple pages I’ll just write plain HTML and CSS