[toastercat]

I see the philosophy of "don't reinvent the wheel" taken to extremes in the React world, and before that, in the jQuery world. There is simply a plugin/component library for anything and everything you need to do, so relatively simple applications have monstrous dependency trees because it's easier to `npm install` the whole kitchen sink and use the little bits you need, than taking some time to understand & implement a smaller, focused alternative that could live in a `util.js` file in your project.

At least thanks to tree-shaking and bundler innovations, the end-users don't suffer from bloated bundle downloads, but your node_modules folder is still 600MB large.