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Why is the Node ecosystem so demanding? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Steps to reproduce:

  1. Start a Node project that uses at least five direct dependencies.
  2. Leave it alone for three months.
  3. Come back and try to install it.

Something in the dependency tree will yell at you that it is deprecated or discontinued. That thing will not be one of your direct dependencies.

NPM will tell you that you have at least one security vulnerability. At least one of the vulnerabilities will be impossible to trigger in your particular application. At least one of the vulnerabilities will not be able to be fixed by updating the versions of your dependencies.

(I am sure I exaggerate, but not by much!)

Why is it like this? How many hours per week does this running-to-stay-in-place cost the average Node project? How many hours per week of developer time is the minimum viable Node project actually supposed to have available?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome to my world. Not that I'm using node, but I'm using mediawiki. They manage to f-up something with about every update, and the documentation, if it exists at all, is often enough completely wrong or broken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been there, Mediawiki is truely painful, especially if you are trying to maintain an extension or two "on the side".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is exactly the case here. I've got a private wiki with a rather large extension by now, and it is the only PHP project I have. So whenever mediawiki f-cks something up, which is nearly every update, I restart my PHP skills to find and fix the sh-t they did to my code this time.