Avoid dependencies with less than 1M downloads per week. Prefer dependencies that have zero dependencies like Hono or Zod.

https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=hono

https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=zod

Recently I switched to Bun in part because many dependencies are already included (db driver, s3 client, etc) that you'd need to download with Node or Deno.