[Phenix88be]

As I said, if you are building a template for Wordpress, you don't really need NPM to do it (you can of course, but should you ?).

There is a lot of upside/downside to NPM/Node, largly covered by smart people on the internet. The real question is "is NPM the simple solution to do X ?". And sometimes the answer is just "no, because it's over engineering the stuff".

The more I work in web development, the more I think we forgot the KISS rule to fancy tools.

[JoelTheSuperior]

To be fair, in my experience, even with less technically savvy clients I'm seeing less and less interest in WordPress. I'm well aware that it's still very, very popular with a lot of people, but in terms of where the work and the money is I just can't see it.

I did WordPress based work a few years ago but I can't see any realistic way I could be doing that now and making any reasonable amount of money, because the reality is that just about anyone can do it, and if a company is going to pay a developer they'd rather pay them to develop something better suited to what they're doing.