I think this is true when you just constantly reach for frameworks. It’s fine to do so, but knowing the core primitives of the language and the DOM can get you

I think this is true when you just constantly reach for frameworks. It’s fine to do so, but knowing the core primitives of the language and the DOM can get you very far without having to reach into a bucket of libraries from npm. As for bundling, there was and will always be tools, people like to think it was just throwing script tags onto a page before npm and the modern packaging ecosystem happened but that’s not really true. At the heigh of jQuerys popularity there were (and are) entire CDNs devoted to serving it and its plugins (which many evolved to serve all kinds of different pre-packed JS bundles) as was a myriad of concatenation tools that even pre-existed before nodejs I remember namespacing and dynamic loading tools too. I can’t remember their names anymore but this is not a new thing. It’s always been volume and choice. It’s much bigger today than it was back then but it’s always been this way as far as I can remember