I feel your pain; try this starter project I created in response https://github.com/mindeavor/node-catapult https://github.com/mindeavor/node-catapult . It only

I feel your pain; try this starter project I created in response https://github.com/mindeavor/node-catapult https://github.com/mindeavor/node-catapult . It only has three dependencies, yet it gives you a starting point to "npm install" in any direction you need (in the front end too, since browserify lets you require npm modules).