Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Polyfills gone rogue
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Polyfills gone rogue
marvinh.dev Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Polyfills gone rogue
Many popular npm packages depend on 6-8x more packages than they need to. Most of these are unnecessary polyfills and it's one of the key reasons node_modules folders are so large. The eslint ecosystem seems to be most affected by this.
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