But seriously this is stupid. Programming shouldn't be the goal. Just because you can write a function doesn't mean you should. Every line of code you write is overhead that must be tested and maintained. I guarantee that if the author chose to hand roll code instead of using packages he'd have a lot more bugs. But he wouldn't know that until he hit some mundane edge case scenario in production.
The problem is, that modules doesn't solve problems magically. Every dependency should be tested, maintained and kept online as well, by somebody else, whom you have no control of. In turn, you have a bunch of black boxes that can blow up your application anytime. Of course, another extreme of write everything yourself is also bad, so it's a trade-off that must be considered carefully. I've build many systems during my career and one of the biggest nightmare I encounter is managing dependencies.
Eventually, given a pure enough language, every "package" could contain only a single function, and every function in a project could be published as an independently reusable unit.
It takes more than two minutes. That little module has a test suite, if you're including it then you have some assurance it does what it says it does. If you write it you've got to worry about whether it works or not.
I'm not convinced its worth it compared to the simplicity of commonjs and module.exports. You have to pull in babel, which has over 40k files to do all this.
Why are people destroying the beautiful simplicity that is javascript? Can those people please go back to java?
