Agreed. There should be more standalone, minimal libraries that don't require the use of NPM. Once you've added NPM, or similar, your complexity skyrockets - ev

Agreed. There should be more standalone, minimal libraries that don't require the use of NPM. Once you've added NPM, or similar, your complexity skyrockets - even if it's abstracted away from you, it's there. Edit: it looks like the kids are calling these "javscript micro libraries" nowawadays