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.