I'm not sure what your specific gripe is with npm. It's one of the fastest and most capable package managers out there, is easily better than Python's Pip (whic

I'm not sure what your specific gripe is with npm. It's one of the fastest and most capable package managers out there, is easily better than Python's Pip (which doesn't resolve dependencies) [0] and Go's go-get silliness for example. If your problem is just 'lots of dependencies' that may break from under you, npm has a solution for that: 'npm shrinkwrap'. [0] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988