NPM is the Instagram for developers. They produce mostly wrapper packages around standard APIs in order to get some fame. It would be much better if they teach

NPM is the Instagram for developers. They produce mostly wrapper packages around standard APIs in order to get some fame. It would be much better if they teach people how to achieve basic stuff without already-baked-in APIs. I'd assume that 80% of the available packages are completely unnecessary, i.e. "I need to set a cookie ... let's download this NPM package" or "I need to make two AJAX requests in order to fetch some JSON ... there are two more NPM packages" I'm writing happily spaghetti code, use PHP, SQLite, Vanilla JS, HTML5, server-send-events, cron jobs and bash scripts to create fast and useful web applications. Last note from today: I saw a tutorial on YouTube how to auto-generate a .m3u playlist for a folder containing hundreds of MP3. It involved of course downloading NPM packages, create a NodeJS cli script etc. My 3-second solution was this (built in tools coming with almost every OS) #!/bin/bash ls -1 *.mp3 > playlist.m3u