Dependency minimalism (writing software that deliberately tries to have as few dependencies as practical) is a really underrated virtue imo.

Every single dependency is a risk that "something will go wrong" during someone's installation process. Installing projects with hundreds of dependencies and walking through errors can be incredibly frustrating.

Strongly agree.

The best software are things like SQLlite and noble/curves that are "as little code as possible but no less", tight dependency hygiene, thorough tests and do one thing well

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any tips / pointers on getting there for frontend projects? been thinking alot about this in the context of all the DEFI Frames we're building at dTech

Typescript as ecosystem is filled with dependency hell

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My personal suggestions:
• React → Svelte
• CSS-in-JS → vanilla CSS
• wagmi → viem

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You don’t need to explicitly install viem to use wagmi if I recall correctly

Wagmi uses viem, so that last one is just "delete wagmi"?

Very easy learning curve IMO, can learn it in an hour or so assuming HTML/CSS/JavaScript familiarity

https://svelte.dev/tutorial/svelte/welcome-to-svelte

React is inherently not reactive; it ships an entire virtual DOM object diffing engine to your client and to optimize it you have to manually tell it how to track dependencies.

Svelte just compiles all the bindings and auto-update logic (“fine-grained reactivity”) for you and spits out a super tiny bundle.

Best parts for me are automatic vanilla CSS scoping and full access to the greater vanilla JavaScript ecosystem. No lock-in to the React Hooks DSL.

Maybe not the easiest switch if you’re already super deep into the React ecosystem and not starting a project from scratch, but also maybe nothing an LLM couldn’t solve :)

Is svelte as reactive? I like the mental model of JSX, bind to object and it auto updates

Haven’t used svelte before. Same thing? So easy switch?

My personal projects have been more Python LLM stuff and iOS these days but when I get back into web I’ll definitely look into incorporating this