I first used Node around 2010 to write some little TCP servers and local event processing tools. It was fun and simple with just the standard library, and I rem

I first used Node around 2010 to write some little TCP servers and local event processing tools. It was fun and simple with just the standard library, and I remember thinking: "A great thing about this Node package manager is that it's obviously so intentionally primitive, nobody would try to use it to create those massive framework dependency monsters like in other languages. So this will remain a simple and fast runtime." How profoundly wrong I was (not for the first time).