If you want to reduce maintenance costs, reduce the amount of Javascript code and tooling. NPM-Javascript is a shitshow of constant breaking changes left and r

If you want to reduce maintenance costs, reduce the amount of Javascript code and tooling. NPM-Javascript is a shitshow of constant breaking changes left and right, whether it is in your runtime framework, or your build system like gulp or more prominently webpack. Try maintaining 10 projects with these frameworks. You'll quickly look for something that is not as maintenance intensive. Example: No, you can't stay on Webpack version X, because (real example) it turned out that version of webpack relied on md5 which wouldn't work in newer node.js versions.