An abbreviated history of JavaScript package managers

xbps and apk are worth checking out too (even though they aren't javascript frameworks)

I hear a lot of people recently telling me about that their beef with npm is that people are too dependant on packages, sometimes using ones for that could also have been written in a few lines of code(I'm guilty of this), but i don't see that as a valid critique.

The JS community has filled in the gaps of the language, so as a result some apps have hundreds of dependencies (I'm guessing thousands too, but I don't know from any first hand experience).