While I agree that NPM can be improved, most people who are complaining about the number of dependencies have no idea what they are doing. If you install a pac

While I agree that NPM can be improved, most people who are complaining about the number of dependencies have no idea what they are doing. If you install a package without the --production, which is default, you get everything including perhaps some build packages like babel, linters, and what not. These dev dependencies tend to be huge. That is how it works. Similarly, if you install the dev version of a library in some other language you get not just the source but perhaps hundreds of megs more of other source. What is the problem?