npm Dependencies: How to Evaluate a Library Before Shipping It to Production (opens in new tab)

npm Dependencies: How to Evaluate a Library Before Shipping It to Production Back in 2005, when I was 16 and managing the network at a cyber café, I learned something no manual ever taught me: every cable you plugged in was debt. If the vendor for that cable disappeared or changed the connector, the problem was yours. Not the vendor's, not the customer's. Yours. Today, when I look at a package.json with 180 direct dependencies in a TypeScript project, I think exactly the same thing. Every ent...