[cloudjacker]

I still make static websites with bootstrap and jquery and host them on Amazon S3

They look great, they perform well and I make money from that big buy button connected to stripe.

[kowdermeister]

But how can you look in the mirror in the morning and admit that your node_modules directory is less than 500Mb? Joke aside, if it works, it works. The simpler the better. JS is in a phase transition state currently that will get better over time, when we can finally write ES6/7 without compilation and use modules natively as well.

[cloudjacker]

yeah, I put my node.js stripe processing on a heroku server for like $1. Not concerned about the node_modules size :)