I have largely avoided the entire typescript / JavaScript ecosystem specifically because I don't want to deal with node or its ecosystem. It's just so confusing

I have largely avoided the entire typescript / JavaScript ecosystem specifically because I don't want to deal with node or its ecosystem. It's just so confusing with yarn, npm, npx, then the build systems gulp, grunt, webpack, etc etc - felt very overwhelming. Yes, if I spent more time learning these things, it would become simple but that seemed like a massive waste of time.