[stephenr]

I have yet to see a "modern" JavaScript project that wasn't a witches brew of shitty decisions and dependency hell.

The last one I looked at, had an npm dependency tree like crab grass. No less than 9 copies of the same module, all different versions between 0.x and 6.x - and all that module does is parse query strings.

The best part was when the developer of said module release v6 changing all `var`s into `let`s and `const`s and then basically responded to people who filed bugs along the lines of "fuck you not my problem".

The last few years have seen both JavaScript and PHP gain community powered package management tools that actively encourage this type of behaviour, and until cool-kid developers understand that they need to actually be aware of the code they're relying on, nothing will change.