What are the tradeoffs of introducing a new dependency to the project?

Additionally, check out the npm workspaces documentation to learn more about how we're doing dependency management in this project. This is another one that can be a little tricky, but I think that this component might not be in the right place (it should probably be scoped to the dev phone ui's package.json)

I should've added a comment with a question about adding this new dependency to the project. One tradeoff is adding more weight to our node_modeules and potentially reducing CI/CD execution.

Yeah, I agree. For the amount of functionality we need (a single input field) the package size might be a bit high - I think it's something like 1.2MB? Space isn't a huge issue for a dev tool, but we're just not using a lot of its functionality. Additionally, although this does seem fairly well maintained, it also can cause some strife if we upgrade to a breaking version of React, for example, and the project maintainers choose not to support it.

We currently use Paste for most of the Dev Phone, but I believe the Dialpad is an example custom component. Do you think it's possible to utilize an existing Paste component, or just write our own logic for this? I bet you can see how things are implemented in the react-textarea-autosize component you found and use that as a basis for our own narrower implementation.

Yes, we should probably create our own logic or use a past component. Down the road the external component could break, so it makes sense to build our own that we maintain.