As a Java developer, sort of, who uses Maven (not Gradle) but spends more time fixing UI stuff (because that's where everything breaks), I don't recognise this

As a Java developer, sort of, who uses Maven (not Gradle) but spends more time fixing UI stuff (because that's where everything breaks), I don't recognise this at all. I can't say I'm a Maven cheerleader but I find nodejs, sorry npm, with webpack, or yarn, babel, gulp, or... to be a confusing soup of incompatibility. Most of which moves on so quickly that whatever works this week is dead next week.