Makes sense, on a rereading.<p>npm coupled with drastically and frequently changing libraries (and transitive dependency clashes) does make a hell of a dependency mess; I agree.<p>But, on the plus side, most node libraries are easy to modify. In fact, I have a private repository full of github forks that I&#x27;ve had to make over the years (and not had the time or patience to submit pull requests). Luckily, npm supports private repos easily.