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0 pointsno_wizard2y ago0 comments

I wonder if there would be any interest from folks for an alternative npm registry that would automatically cleanup dependency chains like this (among other things, possibly), remove polyfills etc.

I always thought about something like this, with on the fly manipulation of packages via SWC would be pretty fast I think

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nicoburns2y ago

I think a better approach would be automated tooling to detect opportunities for cleanup, and then submitting PRs to libraries.

rschristian2y ago

That only works if the maintainers of the packages are interested in the cleanup -- the maintainer behind some of the packages mentioned in this thread is very much not. They prefer the bloat to incrementing the major version number.

bsimpson2y ago

esm.sh kind of does this for livecoding environments (e.g. Codepen/Colab) where you're using <script type=importmap> instead of a bundler.

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