The overreliance on NodeJS in "modern" Enterprise(TM) JS development is pretty weird in general, even for folks who have an affinity for having all their tools written in JS. A bunch of the NodeJS tooling could just target the browser's native JS runtime instead, which is already installed. E.g. to build the project, you clone it, double click the project's Build.app.htm file, and then drag and drop the project source tree there. I've actually already prototyped this sort of thing. This is how I plan on doing anything when working in JS going forward, whenever possible. That it's incompatible with the vast majority of the NodeJS/NPM ecosystem is a bonus.