Ask HN: Why are JavaScript dependencies so messy?

1. Packagist

   1 74 1,809 9.5 PHP

   Package Repository Website - try https://packagist.com if you need your own -

   

   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/

2. SaaSHub

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3. Composer

   2 244 29,449 9.6 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/

4. localslackirc

   3 6 137 8.9 Python

   Discontinued IRC gateway for slack, running on localhost for one user. The project is now on codeberg.

   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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