Show HN: Is webpack bloated?

> I know that many of the packages you have listed are not immediate but transient dependencies.

Yes, and that is where the crux lies. Transient dependencies are hard to change, and as a community we lack good tools to reason about `npm install ajv` upfront. After we have installed a package and our software works, the janitor role is less fun.

It's not a webpack problem per se, I just chose webpack because it's popular and I know it takes a while to install.

> That being said, we still would welcome at any time improvements to transient or dependent packages that we use in webpack, and consider this a really really valuable contributions up stream to many projects!

Lowest hanging fruit is those 17 duplicates, I'll see if can nest them down.