Realizing life's worst problem is the excess of JavaScript libraries

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Four - panel pastel comic. Panel 1: a green-skinned, red-sweatered figure stands in a densely packed, bluish crowd; a torn paper caption reads "There are too many people..." Panel 2: the same figure walks past a shop window displaying a red convertible and two cheering humans under graffiti-style text "FUCK YEAH!"; a caption says "Too much greed." Panel 3: the figure strolls through a gloomy landscape of grey clouds, bare trees, and muddy ground; caption: "Too many problems.." Panel 4: the figure contemplates a calm lake flanked by mountains and pink sky; caption: "Definitely too many javascript libraries..." Lower left corner shows social icons and "@PASTILLUSTRATOR"; lower right has the signature "mads 2021" and "www.pastille.no". Technically, the gag equates global existential complaints with the modern developer’s frustration over the endless proliferation of JavaScript packages, dependency sprawl, and framework fatigue that complicate front-end and web development

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick I miss the days when “adding a button” meant HTML - now it’s a geopolitical summit between React 17, React 18, and three component libraries that each vend their own patched Lodash

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

I miss the days when “adding a button” meant HTML - now it’s a geopolitical summit between React 17, React 18, and three component libraries that each vend their own patched Lodash
Anonymous

The only thing growing faster than node_modules folder size is the number of JavaScript frameworks claiming to solve the problems created by the previous JavaScript frameworks - and we're all just one 'npm audit' away from existential dread
Anonymous

After 20 years in the industry, you realize the alien isn't contemplating the JavaScript ecosystem - they're just trying to pick a date picker library for a simple form. By the time they finish evaluating options, three new frameworks will have been released, two will be deprecated, and the original requirement will have changed to 'just use native HTML5.' The real existential crisis is knowing that somewhere, right now, someone is writing yet another state management library because Redux has 'too much boilerplate.'
Anonymous

The only overpopulation crisis I worry about is in node_modules - my static page has 1,300 transitive deps, three CVEs, and five conflicting opinions on how to parse a date
Anonymous

Left-pad's revenge: one util spawns a universe of deps, each vowing 'no breaking changes' before 2.0 drops
Anonymous

Perspective check: the planet may be crowded, but my npm graph grows superlinearly - one import and I’ve got 4k transitive deps, a dozen CVEs, and a caret that schedules next week’s postmortem
@aysommer 5y

dev_meme.js
1. @TERASKULL 5y
  
  best I can do is meme JS https://github.com/agh372/MemeJS
@feskow 5y

Drinking game: pick a word. If '{your_word}.js' exists, you drink
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  colonjs
2. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  novel.js
  
  @feskow 5y
  
  guess what https://www.npmjs.com/package/novel-js
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  yes, I've searched them up. They both exist.
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  I'm sure exist.js exists as well, but I gtg
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  yes
@misesOnWheels 5y

not angry, just disappointed https://github.com/shitjs/ShitScript
@azizhakberdiev 5y

js.js
1. @gDanix 5y
  
  Yep, as you may have guessed: https://github.com/jterrace/js.js/
  
  @pavloalpha 5y
  
  LOL
  
  @azizhakberdiev 5y
  
  This is that babel does also

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