Have we just replaced `Dependency Hell` for a `Hell of a lot of Dependency`?

While recently working with a frontend engineer it struck me that the most basic of applications have massive amounts of dependencies. Specifically React configured as a simple UI for a CRUD app has over 100 packages that have to be pulled down, version resolved, compiled, and generated as an app.js type resource. Why so much for so little actual usage.

I feel that web package manager need to evolve to a a point where singular classes/modules/components/etc can be pulled into a project and not the entire library. PHP has the ability to select the standard PHP libraries to include when compiling the binary.

Thoughts?

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