[solatic]

> Inlining dependencies kind of goes against the whole point of npm

I mean, this is why people love language with deep, solid standard libraries. You don't have a situation where a problem in a sub-sub-sub-sub-dependency provokes five different groups of people to all issue an update, one after another. You just upgrade your underlying installation to the latest patch version and continue.

Language ecosystems where a few lines of code constitutes a library fundamentally result in you being dependent on a huge number of outside people to cooperate on updates. That's what's broken. Not a tool which tells you that you have out-of-date libraries and, by the by, hooks into CVE databases.

OP should stop and consider whether it might be beneficial to inline some of those dependencies before dismissing it out-of-hand. If you never use the dependency in such a way as to present a real security risk... and you don't need feature updates from upstream, i.e. the software is fine as-is when you first incorporated the dependency... then why wouldn't you inline the dependency?

If anything, inlining the dependency will allow static code analyzers to point out all the parts of the dependency which you're not using (i.e. dead code) and eliminate it all. That way, even if the dependency were to be discovered to have a security fault, if the faulty code was in a section that you eliminated as dead code... then you don't have a security problem in the first place!