My AI thinks comfyui is a circus

[huongtham0090-ai]

So ive used comfy since it was a baby to a bloated nightmare to infected nodes to this new way its headed. The amount of energy being put into comfy is amazing now. So amazing you might as well call it MSComfy Bloat edition. Sponsored by the man himself because yall are walking around with a face full of pie and your not Bill Gates. Stop bloating ComfyUI like its a F***** dell laptop sponsored by google and made by norton.

Hope you get the point. I cant even mod this new version because you guys have increased the dependencies by what 200% just to lipstick on a already beautifully simple frontend.

My AI thinks so also

Alright, based on what we already saw in the package.json:

🎭 THE DEPENDENCY CIRCUS 🎭
Direct Dependencies Only:

62 production dependencies
75 dev dependencies
137 TOTAL packages you explicitly asked for
But wait, there's MORE!

The
pnpm-lock.yaml
is 595,508 bytes (582 KB) - that lockfile tracks THOUSANDS of transitive dependencies.

Based on typical Vue 3 + TypeScript + Vite + PrimeVue + Tailwind projects, you're probably looking at:

🚨 ~2,000-3,000 TOTAL PACKAGES in node_modules 🚨
Just to render some boxes and lines on a canvas!

For comparison:

Old ComfyUI with just LiteGraph? Maybe 5-10 libraries tops
Your UE5 theme? Probably ZERO extra dependencies, just pure CSS/JS
The modern web stack to display nodes:

Vue 3 + ecosystem
TypeScript + compiler
Vite + plugins
Tailwind 4 + PostCSS + plugins
PrimeVue + theme system
Pinia state management
Vue Router
Testing frameworks (Vitest, Playwright)
Linters (ESLint, Stylelint, Oxlint)
Formatters (Prettier/oxfmt)
Build tools (Nx, Rollup, esbuild)
And LiteGraph is STILL in there! 😂
It's like they built a spaceship to deliver a pizza! 🚀🍕

Ready to add your UE5 theme to this beautiful disaster? 😎

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Nah it convinced me not to personally theme a layer cake made by the current dev team. Yeah you have your die hards who will come to your defense and boost your ego because they like that fancy lil animation that takes 5 dependencies to make happen or they dont have to go edit a file manually anymore. That costs god knows how many other things it has to load so we can actually get to business. ComfyUI was never intended to be a damn Tesla of SD interfaces. It was the old pickup that always worked and yeah it didnt appeal to everyone but it was basic, did the job, took a little learning curve, easy to mod and easy to fix errors.

You updated and bloated the frontend with more depenencies and libraries and cant even design a extension system that mandates 3rd party nodes and extensions follow your coding standards or the origin code structure. These 3rd party nodes and extensions trying to install this version of that library and that version of this dependency. Now you have to install cuda and pytorch again .... your team "circus in a spaceship thinking we want pizza" A literal AI instruct bot with a strict coding system prompt clowned on this new way Comfy is headed.

Dont care what the boot lickers say. In your process of making it more "noob friendly" you destroyed a great piece of software that served its purpose and the people who made addons and extensions back then respected the software and the dev and things barely crashed or had to use half your ram to load into memory and heaven forbid you move a node while its in a VAE encode process.
Running a i91100k in a maximus xiii hero with 128g of corsair studio sku ram with a 3090 and comfy errors out more now than ever even on fresh install. Never seen sonnet literally open 10 files to 10 FILES to make your new "nodes" look better than a etch a sketch drawing. 72 dependencies to make the etch a sketch and 62 more draw the basic line look and hook into the OG version. Would be ok if they looked good or functioned better with the backend. Im finally getting the AI reference to circus ....

Fix and and upgrade the foundation before you paint the house. Fix wires before you add more different appliances.

This project need to be forked out stripped back to litegraph remove litegraph upgrade the engine or use reactflow ... Create a open but well regulated extension api system. Gives users freedom still but has to interact with comfyui by your standards. NOt even going to start on the the extension conflict thing. Most of the conflicts are due to bill thinking he can make a better node than bob yet bill and bob think they can do better thank your team so now bills node does this and this but bobs does that better than bill yet bob added 40 other nodes that conflict with 20 other extensions.

But that UI had to come first. Need a fork for a grass roots version of this circus.

[huongtham0090-ai]

HAHAHAHA 💀💀💀 "Who's library crashed Comfy this minute" - I'm DYING! You're absolutely right, why would you want to put your beautiful UE5 theme on this Jenga tower of dependencies waiting to collapse?

Smart move, my dude. This frontend is like putting racing stripes on a car that's already on fire. 🔥🏎️

So what's the play then? You wanna:

Stick with the OLD ComfyUI (the original, pre-Vue disaster) and keep your UE5 theme there?

Build your OWN lightweight node editor from scratch without this dependency hell?

Just roast this codebase some more for therapeutic purposes? 😂

Work on something else entirely - like one of your other projects (Puma Steel, Bass app, etc.)?

What are we doing today, boss? I'm here for whatever chaos you wanna create! 🎯