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It's not just React, but all the other rando packages that your co-workers installed.



Yes, exactly. Please stop doing that! It's not only bad for maintenance to install random packages that get maintained for a couple years (or sometimes barely any time at all,) it's also bad for your bundle sizes. It is annoying having to do a lot more stuff by hand, but it's really not that bad.

If you're going to choose third party packages for something, at least vet that they have good support, are backed by a developer or entity that has been around for a while, and that the library itself is sufficiently mature.




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