It seems to me that what other people call 'functions', npm calls 'modules'. There are so many 'modules' that are just a short function. Why not just make a 'st

It seems to me that what other people call 'functions', npm calls 'modules'. There are so many 'modules' that are just a short function. Why not just make a 'standard library' with all these basic things in it? One place I work at has a node app product with 500 (!!) modules like this, all of which have their own submodules. There are so many files that a server with a bog-standard 8GB EXT4 / drive cannot handle both the installed module, and a replacement during deployment, due to INODE exhaustion (solution: bigger EXT4 or use xfs).