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16 October 2021

The Javascript "ecosystem" is a hot mess and so is software development in general

I have a small Vue 2 project (an admin UI for dictmaker) that I created with vue cli six months ago. Today, I picked it up again to finish it, and started out by doing a yarn upgrade. Of course, blindly upgrading all dependencies is never a good idea, but this a tiny WIP project with just one dependency that I added, and there is a constant stream of GitHub dependabot alerts every month forcing to upgrade some dependency or other, so what is the worst that could happen? At least that is what I thought.