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  $ npm install https://github.com/matrix-org/cerulean
  [71 lines of logs]
  added 2371 packages from 808 contributors in 62.487s

heh, that’s because the dev dependencies (prettier and the test suite) have been accidentally added as runtime deps.

but seriously, the amount of deps react has is really not the point i was making on the blog post...

waves arms helplessly

> heh, that’s because the dev dependencies (prettier and the test suite) have been accidentally added as runtime deps.

fixed - thanks akx (and congrats on the first PR to cerulean :D)! https://github.com/matrix-org/cerulean/pull/30

Once built, the only frontend dependency is React. Most of those packages are tooling related to the build process.

> Most of those packages are tooling related to the build process.

So? jiofih's claim was about "React alone and the tooling".