[Kye]

That takes awareness and discipline. The last time I tried to learn Node, all the guides led you down a road of dependency hell.

[nonethewiser]

Not following a guide takes awareness and discipline too. Furthermore, if you are simply learning Node, aren’t the downsides of dependencies moot?

[Kye]

Tolerating an iceberg of bad habits under a surface of abstractions is a way to get up to speed on something fast, but you eventually have to invest time learning better ways to do things. Except in web development where it's normal to send multi-megabyte blobs to the browser.

[photochemsyn]

If you always in include 'vanilla' as a verbatim search term when looking for Node.js tutorials you'll get better results that tend to avoid that problem.

[11235813213455]

that takes experience, like everything you want to do well

[cableshaft]

That same comment, translated to gamer speak 'just git gud, bruh!'