Code Smell 138 - Packages Dependency
There's an industry trend to avoid writing code as much as possible, because who has time to write eight lines when a stranger has already published a package for it? Turns out that convenience isn't free
TL;DR: Write your code unless you need an existing complex solution
Problems 😔
- Coupling
- Security problems
- Architectural complexity
- Packages Corruption
Solutions 😃
- Implement trivial solutions
- Rely on mature dependencies
Context 💬
Recently, there's been a trend to rely on dependencies so hard to trace that you'd need a private investigator, not a debugger.
This introduces coupling into your designs and architectural solutions, which is a polite way of saying you handed strangers the keys to your codebase.
In August 2026, an attacker compromised the maintainer account behind Keyv and injected credential-stealing code into it, right around the time thousands of developers were happily typing npm install without a second thought.
The malware spread through...
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