And more useful than I thought.

Keep your host free from lingering services and mismatched versions. Run your dev stack in isolation and rebuild it when ...

You have a small, mostly static corpus (e.g., a few hundred to a few thousand chunks). You want zero‑infrastructure local retrieval with fast, predictable latency. You’re assembling “infinite few‑shot ...

Barrel files are convenient, but they often come with trade-offs including: Performance and memory: they artificially inflate the module graph and slow down startup times, HMR, and CI pipelines.