But I don't NEED a wheel, I just need a tarp to put over this metal frame on my patio, and for some reason the tarp manufacturer attaches wheels and plane wings to it!?

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The package comes with all the bells and whistles but the final build only contains the tarp, if you import it right and tree shake it.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

This person nodes…

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Until those wheels contain malware and spyware.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or bugs that you only work out much later on.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Or someone deletes the axle repo and the wheel flies off.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The problem is "I need function, library with 1000 functions has function, include." Library's 823rd function turns out to have a vulnerability.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Enter tree-shaking.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Yes, I'd like a wheel. I don't want to invent it. Why, of course, give me the full package of wheel, axis, rotor, engine, fuel tank, windshield, mirrors, tire, front panel, brakes. This wheel will be great for me manually spinning cotton!"

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And I have the option to spin cotton off-road on rugged terrain...so there's that...

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You say that, but I've watched the JS community move from one framework and tool suite to the next quite rapidly. By my recollection, I've seen a wholesale change in popular tooling at least four times in the last decade. Granted, that's not every developer's trajectory through all this, but (IMO) that's still a lot.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But changing frameworks is not why node_modules is so large. You don’t import Angular and Vue.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I agree. Rather each one of those is rather substantial on its own. Plus the churn of going from framework to framework makes it less useful to compress and bundle all this stuff into fixed versions on a slower schedule (e.g. like Ubuntu packages do). I think that all contributes to bloat.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Yes, but my moon rover's wheels need to fulfill different requirements.

[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Is this why pip packages are called wheels...?