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Comment by john_max_1

5 days ago

https://deps.dev/npm/octofriend/0.0.18/dependencies - huge list of dependencies

They should hide them, like Anthropic does, to confuse dependency hawks.

https://deps.dev/npm/%40anthropic-ai%2Fclaude-code/1.0.69/de...

  • Lol! We're open-source, so there's no point hiding. Our actual non-devDependencies in our package.json is small, but there are a lot of transitive dependencies — downside of the Node ecosystem.

    I doubt we're particularly different in that regard from Claude Code, since we use the same frameworks (e.g. Ink for terminal rendering).

There are only 16 direct dependencies, and they all look pretty reasonable to me.

Have you worked with any Node.js projects before? I'd actually say this is a relatively sparse list of dependencies for a user-facing tool.