KBall, Chris, Nick, and Safia discuss how they keep a healthy relationship with dependencies in their codebase. Listen to learn how they decide when to use third-party dependencies, how they verify and validate dependencies, and how to support the ecosystem of open source libraries.

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FOSSA is an open source dependency management tool.
This package will analyze the licenses of the node.js modules in your project.
Tidelift is a way for software teams to support open source projects.

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We're dependent. See?