[stupidcar]

JS has packages. http://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_modules.html

[irq11]

you mean, the future version of javascript that nobody uses yet has modules:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...

meanwhile, everyone else uses one of the sixteen competing implementations of something that was built-in to any real language starting in the 70s. that's not a mess at all.