We’ve all seen the meme: a black hole, a highway collapsing, or the universe warping under the unimaginable weight of a single folder named node_modules.
It used to be a joke. Today, it’s a production hazard.
If you create a fresh project using some modern meta-frameworks or tools, before you even write your first console.log(), you already have tens of thousands of files sitting in your directory. We have reached a point where we need thousands of external packages just to render text on a screen or route a basic HTTP request.
How did the JavaScript ecosystem become so heavily dependent on others, and why is this breaking modern software engineering?
The "Left-Pad" Trauma and the Security Nightmare
