Phoenix is actually very agnostic as far as asset packaging goes, one can swap Brunch for Webpack or Parcel (or nothing) easily. So it's not to say those 300+ b

Phoenix is actually very agnostic as far as asset packaging goes, one can swap Brunch for Webpack or Parcel (or nothing) easily. So it's not to say those 300+ build-time-only node packages have anything to do with Phoenix (or Elixir, or Erlang's) ability.