> I've already made this clear, a blank Hello World App requires 20k+ files and 100's runtime dependencies. That's a legitimate complaint but I don't think it

> I've already made this clear, a blank Hello World App requires 20k+ files and 100's runtime dependencies. That's a legitimate complaint but I don't think it has anything to do with micro-modules. You can easily have thousands of files per one npm package just as well. Now, if you actually mean commonjs-modules as opposed to npm packages, then you have a point. We really need to avoid unpacking all this files on disk separately. > Your point about their being only 2 dependencies Not my point. In fact, React has exactly zero runtime dependencies and as many development dependencies as you like. > recommended state of the art React SPA development. I only have the issue with the recommended part. All that React does is just trying to cooperate cleanly with the most popular js development stack out there. That unfortunately means npm mess (for now).