While recently working with a frontend engineer it struck me that the most basic of applications have massive amounts of dependencies. Specifically React configured as a simple UI for a CRUD app has over 100 packages that have to be pulled down, version resolved, compiled, and generated as an app.js type resource. Why so much for so little actual usage.
I feel that web package manager need to evolve to a a point where singular classes/modules/components/etc can be pulled into a project and not the entire library. PHP has the ability to select the standard PHP libraries to include when compiling the binary.
Thoughts?
