alt Hacker NewsIt runs on plain LAMP without 400 node_modules to show a task list. The 2000s called, and their stack still boots faster than ours.
It runs on plain LAMP without 400 node_modules to show a task list. The 2000s called, and their stack still boots faster than ours.
The purpose of node_modules is to reduce the surface of ancillary code which one must maintain.
This allows the maintainer to focus on business logic, delegating universal, undifferentiating concerns to projects that respect those concerns as their own raison d'etre.
Thus is all running software respected as central, and not peripheral, during its development. This raises the quality of the code—increasing functionality, and reducing defects.