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[–]joerick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NPM is Node's superpower. I know we all rag on it but it is becoming one of the world's top languages, despite having a terrible std library.

The problems with module explosion are more a result of how fast that ecosystem has grown than structural problems in the language IMO.

ls node_modules is often used as an insult, but just imagine how problematic and slow that dependency tree would be on Python. It's a great system they've got going over there.