[alexghr]

While I agree that Node's ecosystem is not the best, it's what we have in the frontend world.

If you're working on a Node-based service or React app, you already have to deal with Node and its package ecosystem. Adding a couple of extra MB (or even KB, depending on package reuse) on top of your existing chain of dependencies is a tiny con to the huge benefit of not having to do logic in Bash :)

[dogma1138]

The problem is that you don’t always know what is actually being executed, shell scripting is risky as it is without the rabbit hole that is the Node dependencies system.