cleaning house in nx monorepo, how i removed 120 unused deps safely
Short version, I ran Knip across our Nx repo, took the unused list as a hint, deleted candidates, built, tested, booted apps, and put a few back when they were secretly used.
weeklyfoo #106 / 2025-10-13Don't Be Afraid to Re-Invent the Wheel
Calculate how much effort it costs to implement a functionality by yourself instead of depending on a 3rd party.
weeklyfoo #53 / 2024-10-07How to keep package.json under control
Val Town is a React application with a ton of dependencies. It’s complicated, and we have to deal with dependency upgrades all the time.
weeklyfoo #102 / 2025-09-15What Is a dependency?
For whatever reason, I’ve been thinking about dependencies lately.
weeklyfoo #66 / 2025-01-06