[motles]

"Amazingly well" has become 500MB node_modules directories in your source tree?

[wongarsu]

When I install the first 2-3 dependencies that causes npm to install 200 packages. I don't particularly like that, but it could be argued that this is a testament to how easy npm makes using third-party packages and how painlessly it does recursive dependency resolution.

[carlmr]

Exactly. It is such an easy to use package manager that people barely think about adding dependencies.

[scrollaway]

You should take a look at your virtualenvs once in a while. They're not particularly smaller and keep in mind that python has a much larger stdlib.