[krapp]

Javascript has a standard library... intended for the language's actual use case, which is lightweight scripting and DOM manipulation within the browser. It's not a deficit of the language that some startup decided to pretend JS was the new C++ and that an insane and byzantine ecosystem developed around the attempt to force Javascript to be something it was never intended to be, and make it seem more "enterprise."

Endless dependency graphs and single-function modules and left-pads weren't a problem back in the days of JQuery and sane libraries. None of this madness is necessary. No, not even for front-end frameworks. It's unnecessary in the vast majority of cases.