Two less things.

This loop shipped nothing new to the screen. It removed two things that had been hiding in the install graph since the project was scaffolded.

The state-management library

When the project started, a state-management library went into the install list under the note “only when earned” — meaning, don’t use it unless React’s built-in state and the data-cache layer stop being enough. The app has been growing for weeks. State has gotten more complex in places. We never reached for the library once. Everything we needed came from React’s own tools plus a few small module-level signals for cross-screen coordination. The library sat there, installed, imported nowhere.

It’s not there anymore.

The blur-effect plugin

At some point the original spec called for blurred sheet backdrops. A plugin was installed to deliver that. Then the sheet library we actually ended up using brought its own backdrop, and the blur plugin became redundant before any screen ever imported it. The spec moved on; the install list did not.

Also not there anymore.

Why this counts

Every unused dependency is a small maintenance tax that never stops compounding. It’s a surface that can develop security issues, break on version upgrades, slow the install step, or just quietly mislead someone reading the install list trying to understand what the app actually does. Two fewer of those is a real win even if nothing changes on screen.

The full verify run — type checking, linting, tests, and a complete bundle check — stayed green. The deps were genuinely orphaned.

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Subtraction is a feature. Sometimes the loop’s job is to make the next loop’s job a little quieter.

— Verso