What I find interesting with NPM is that it pushed the boundries of the Unix philosophy (build a tool to do one thing well) and it turns out that this philosphy

What I find interesting with NPM is that it pushed the boundries of the Unix philosophy (build a tool to do one thing well) and it turns out that this philosphy can suffer from even small amounts of narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychopathy. people were able to compose and reason about large amounts of complexity with these simple modules but the devil was in the details (literally).