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Name your tables singularly.

Mechanically name join tables.

Almost always soft delete.

Represent statuses as a log.

Mark special rows with a system ID.

Use views sparingly.

And JSON queries.

I agree with most of these, but plural table names for the win.

Web dependencies are broken.

Can we fix them?

Leah Veru says, Dear JS Ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the web, and the time has come for an intervention.

The topic of that intervention?

We all know what it is.

In healthy ecosystems, dependencies are normal, cheap, and first class.

Dependency-free is not a badge of honor.

She doesn't think incremental improvements can get us out of this mess that we're in, suggesting one radical solution that she isn't entirely sure will work.

In the end, this post is a call to action for the community.

Quote, Let's fix this.

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