That's not React. The stuff you need for "displaying some rectangles and glyphs in a browser" is "react" and "react-dom". Those 1484 packages are simply for th

That's not React. The stuff you need for "displaying some rectangles and glyphs in a browser" is "react" and "react-dom". Those 1484 packages are simply for the build step. And having a lot of dependencies in a build tool isn't necessary "insane".