As a counterpoint: I have a reasonably complex app that gets data via WebSocket pub/sub and dashboards it, does things like stream logs from remote devices, ope

As a counterpoint: I have a reasonably complex app that gets data via WebSocket pub/sub and dashboards it, does things like stream logs from remote devices, open up SSH consoles, draw canvas diagram with network map etc. It’s split up into lots of component files and I think I still have less than 50 files. So no, I would not say 1000 file app is normal (which is not to say they are not doing something grand that justifies it). With my app size I can get away with no Webpack, just a Makefile that links together required file list into a template file, which is then included into the page template on the backend.