Thworing together a pile of third party NPM modules is a bad decision anyway. This is precisely why we picked Mojolicious to use as a Perl web framework: minima

Thworing together a pile of third party NPM modules is a bad decision anyway. This is precisely why we picked Mojolicious to use as a Perl web framework: minimal dependencies, minimal breakage, reimplements some functionality. It turned out to be a good decision as it's also actively maintained compared to the others.