Dev productivity and quality of life improvements are a passion of mine. And speeding up working with code is not only fun, but also essential for building products fast. Happier and faster developers equal happier customers, who get their features and bug fixes sooner!

When dealing with npm-based ecosystem and its myriads of packages, dependencies install time, especially in large projects, can be unreasonably long. Below are three simple tricks that can help you shave off a minute or two, or sometimes even reduce your yarn install time by half 😋

Bloated yarn.lock problem

If your project runs on yarn, then more likely…

Everything is a skill and everything can be learned. Even learning itself is something that can be trained and improved. And in software development, constant learning is at the core of a successful career as a developer. I believe that one of the most efficient ways to gain really deep knowledge fast is not to go through online courses, or not even build something yourself, but to fix a problem.

In this article, I want to share one of the problems that I encountered recently, which turned out a perfect use case to practice deep learning of how and why…

This page describes the theory and some technical details behind the webpack-deduplication-plugin plugin, which helped us reduce javascript size in Jira by ~10%.

Setting up the scene

In order to not to turn this article into a book on modern dependencies and bundling tools, it is assumed that the reader has some understanding of what tools like npm, yarn and webpack are used for in modern frontend projects and want to dig a bit deeper in the magic behind the scenes.

Some terminology used in the article:

Direct dependencies: packages on which your project relies explicitly. Typically installed via yarn add package-name. The full…