The problem is two folds: - Node.js std lib is paper thin. You can't even parse a http request multipart body without bringing in a separate package... - NPM

The problem is two folds: - Node.js std lib is paper thin. You can't even parse a http request multipart body without bringing in a separate package... - NPM has always been a mess, but it's seems it was all by design in order to make node.js depend on that (commercial) package manager. Node.js creator biggest regret was its dependency to NPM.