What standard libs are you comparing? Node's to what other language? I've seen so many commenters say this, but still not sure what the magical thing that can't be achieved with Node built-ins is...
Developers don't write libs because you can't do it with built-ins, the write libs because developers like to write code and NPM is easy to use.
You need thousands of packages for a pretty standard React application (which requires hundreds of base packages). That's a cultural problem in Node's packaging community that injects risk into the packaging ecosystem.
> What standard libs are you comparing? Node's to what other language? I've seen so many commenters say this, but still not sure what the magical thing that can't be achieved with Node built-ins is...
What standard libs are you comparing? Node's to what other language? I've seen so many commenters say this, but still not sure what the magical thing that can't be achieved with Node built-ins is...
Developers don't write libs because you can't do it with built-ins, the write libs because developers like to write code and NPM is easy to use.