I’ve been thinking a lot about dependencies while working with my new website, built on Astro. Astro, with no additional packages, uses 400 total dependencies weighing in at about 122 MB. Andrei Kashcha has made a lovely visualizer where you can see Astro and all other packages as a graph. My website, with all additional packages, has 467 dependencies which brings me up to over 500 MBs, and that’s insane. Even a “lightweight” project such as 11ty has 213 dependencies. However, I don’t want to di...