Ask HN: Why are JavaScript dependencies so messy?

• Packagist

  61 1,712 8.7 PHP

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PHP's dependency management is actually quite nice. The community developed a standard [0], a client [1] and repository [2] that pretty much deal with everything I've had to do with PHP dependencies without issues.

[0] https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/

[1] https://getcomposer.org/

[2] https://packagist.org/

• Composer

  191 28,225 9.5 PHP

  Dependency Manager for PHP

  

PHP's dependency management is actually quite nice. The community developed a standard [0], a client [1] and repository [2] that pretty much deal with everything I've had to do with PHP dependencies without issues.

[0] https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/

[1] https://getcomposer.org/

[2] https://packagist.org/

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• localslackirc

  6 137 9.1 Python

  IRC gateway for slack, running on localhost for one user

I could never understand why people insist on using requests rather than the stdlib (which works just fine).

When async became a thing, I remember hitting some bug in aiohttp so I wrote myself a tiny (just doing the bit I needed) HTTP async client, which I figured was easier than wrestling aiohttp into compliance.

These days aiohttp is quite nice for async, and for sync I just use the stdlib.

My async client, if it can be of interest https://github.com/ltworf/localslackirc/blob/master/slackcli...

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