The common consensus is that building JS apps without an endless list of dependencies is so slow that you're going to get creamed in the marketplace due to inef

The common consensus is that building JS apps without an endless list of dependencies is so slow that you're going to get creamed in the marketplace due to inefficiency. Why should we spend $5m re-inventing the wheel when we could spend $2m re-purposing a bunch of other people's work? Whether or not that's true is largely irrelevant, since the decisions are made based on what people believe, and since the same decision is made every time, there's not much data for the other side of the comparison. When was the last time someone deployed an app with less than 10 (total, not direct) dependencies? Hell, even 100? Some people have probably never built one with less than 1,000.