How to Decide Which Packages to Use

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At my current company (Agoda), we don’t have a strategy for picking what packages that we use (that I know of). Mostly, you have to prove that installing this package is useful and that it wouldn’t make sense doing it ourselves. We don’t want packages that will increase our bundle size (for <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/javascript" target="_blank">javascript</a>) as that would increase the load on customers and that’s not a good thing. To prevent that, we have a <a href="https://beerandserversdontmix.com/2018/01/06/comparing-webpack-bundle-size-changes-on-pull-requests-as-a-part-of-ci/" target="_blank">bundle size checker</a> in pull requests. So, how do you decide which packages to use?