SPEEDING UP THE JAVASCRIPT ECOSYSTEM - POLYFILLS GONE ROGUE

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Many popular npm packages depend on 6-8x more packages than they need to. Most of these are unnecessary polyfills and it's one of the key reasons node_modules folders are so large. The ESLint ecosystem seems to be the most affected by this. This article dives into just how many unneeded polyfills are in people’s npm packages and how they take up so much space.