the workbox-build package pulls 73.63MB of dependencies

[preynal]

In a bare folder I just npm install workbox-build and get:

with npm listing 4.3M weekly downloads

that would be above 323TB per week? more than 1.2PB per month ?

am I missing something? why is this package so large?

[THETCR]

Because the level of dependency management on this project is amateurish at best. When you want to show examples on how it should not be done, this project is one of them.

[tomayac]

Hi there,

Workbox is moving to a new engineering team within Google. As part of this move, we're declaring a partial bug bankruptcy to allow the new team to start fresh. We realize this isn't optimal, but realistically, this is the only way we see it working. For transparency, here're the criteria we applied:

• For PRs, we closed everything that doesn't target the current v7 branch.
• For Issues, we closed everything that was created before 2024.

Thanks, and we hope for your understanding! The Workbox team