I'd hoped the author would talk more about how cobbling an app together from 30 different npm packages is a wholly different experience from using only a few an

I'd hoped the author would talk more about how cobbling an app together from 30 different npm packages is a wholly different experience from using only a few and designing the code to model the problem being solved, rather than being forced into a solution by your dependencies. The distinction is subtle but real. I submit that great software must be designed.