I do a lot of JS development and I think most dependencies are highly overrated. ES5 is a very high level language already. I use a package manager, but frankly

I do a lot of JS development and I think most dependencies are highly overrated. ES5 is a very high level language already. I use a package manager, but frankly, I'm considering stopping because there is a lot of value to being able to just keep a local copy and include scripts with a script tag. It forces you to manually update and inspect for regressions. You get a much better sense of your total payload size, too.