[askyourmother]

Npm is awesome. When I want poorly thought out single line functions disguised as modules, with dependency chains a mile long, is it my go-to tool.

After all, why have a simple left-pad function, when I have lots and lots of modules, just to achieve the same result?

[nailer]

A simple left pad function is a module. One is simply a container for the other. It honestly sounds like you haven't used npm.