[progval]

This happens because libraries installed by create-react-app depend on many other libraries (1026 transitive dependencies as of today).

As a comparison, Django, a large Python web framework, has only three dependencies (pytz, sqlparse, and asgiref), which don't have dependencies themselves

[coffeefirst]

Yeah, in 10 years of Python and front end development, this is the most fragile ecosystem.

That's not a criticism of NPM, just the way it's being used today.

[fludlight]

pytz is a great example here. Imagine a separate package for every time zone.