As a front-end veteran, I have to point out that the increasing complexity of front-end projects nowadays makes the dependency installation slower and slower.

At Alibaba and Ant Group, Engineering Productivity is an important metric for engineers, and the speed of installation of front-end dependencies is a big negative impact factor.

We started an initiative in 2021, one of its goals was to optimize the installation speed of dependencies. We managed to speed up the dependency installation by 3 times.