That's an interesting perspective. I'd add that one option in those situations could be to utilise Webpack plugins. In one project we were bundling JavaScript w

That's an interesting perspective. I'd add that one option in those situations could be to utilise Webpack plugins. In one project we were bundling JavaScript with webpack in a service behind an online IDE. We used a couple hand rolled plugins to do custom resolving (find the packages in this memory-fs structured by name/version), caching (what is safe to reuse) and sandboxing (only allow safe requires and plugins).