[benmccann]

Yes, eslint is particularly frustrating: https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=eslint

There are plenty of people in the community who would help reduce the number of dependencies, but it really requires the maintainers to make it a priority. Otherwise the only way to address it is to switch to another solution like oxlint.

[dmix]

I tried upgrading ESLint recently and it took me forever to fix all the dependency issues. I wish I never used ESLint prettier as now my codebase styling is locked into an ESLint config :/

[WorldMaker]

Deno has a similar formatter to prettier and similar linter to eslint (with Typescript plugins) out-of-the-box. (Some parts of those written in Rust.) I have been finding myself moving to Deno more and more. I also haven't noticed too many reformatting problems with migrating from prettier to Deno. (If there are major changes, you can also add the commit to a .git-ignore-revisions file.)

[azemetre]

Have you looked into biome? We recently switched at work. It’s fine and fast. If you overly rely on 3rd party plugins it might be hard but it covered our use case fine for a network based react app.

Way less dependencies too.

[user34283]

That's like 85 dependencies, not hundreds or even thousands.

Jest pulls in 300 by the way.