Installing a few basic packages in a Node project can quickly result in 1000s of packages. That's 1000s of packages you need to maintain (update), 1000s of pack

Installing a few basic packages in a Node project can quickly result in 1000s of packages. That's 1000s of packages you need to maintain (update), 1000s of packages that can be or become compromised, or get deleted. 1000s of packages that will spam "this package is deprecated" messages in your logs or just break because NodeJS decides that importing and requiring files should work differently again for some reason. 1000s of packages with backwards-incompatible changes that seems to happen every few years in NodeJS land. Some packages have backwards-incompatible changes and you don't even know because you're not using the package yourself and suddenly the behavior of your code changes in some subtle way you'll find out about a few weeks after upgrading. I think the problem is that NodeJS's standard library is either too barebones or nobody wants to use it, since there are libraries for all kinds of basic stuff and everyone ends up using different libraries (or different versions of the same library) for the same thing. HTTP clients, array/string manipulation and date/time handling are some notable examples.