Anecdotal, but I find the Node std lib + the language primitives to be good enough for me. I never find myself reaching for external dependencies outside of Rea

Anecdotal, but I find the Node std lib + the language primitives to be good enough for me. I never find myself reaching for external dependencies outside of React or an equivalent on the front end, a testing framework, etc. maybe 5 dependencies total for a moderately complex app. I’m honestly not sure why the JS ecosystem is so dependency happy. It’s not necessary, and the downsides are massive and obvious.