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Here is the author's motivation: "It felt wrong installing half of npm even for basic utilities, so I made JUST, a family of dependency-free modules" [1]

1: https://twitter.com/angustweets/status/754375515159441408

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Something i can relate to. It just feels wrong to do a npm install for something very basic and see half a linux installation happening in the console...

It does nothing to address the underlying issue of people relying on NPM packages where there is little-to-no developer maturity to do with stable APIs and ongoing support.

I'll never criticise anyone for releasing OSS but ultimately he just becomes the things that half of NPM relies on and the vicious cycle continues.

Also, is it possible to install a non-trivial npm package without deprecated warnings?

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