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		maverwa on Aug 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why does validating a user require 14000 f... Oh wow, yeah. Looks like the culprit here is google/apiclient-services which provides a fat client for EVERY google API [1] In classic google monorepo culture, thats one package for all the things. A great example on how not to structure your SDK. So yeah, you are right. Thats a lot of code if you only use like 0.25% of it. [1]: https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-php-client-services...

yashg on Aug 30, 2021 [–]

I liked what jQuery UI does. It provides a web based configurator to choose what components you want to use and then you download a custom file with only those components. Really useful Avoid wasteful loading of code you are never going to use.

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