I understand what you're saying, but it's completely contextual. The title of this article is "All javascript libraries...". Maybe it's just that I'm not a front-end-only developer. I have no clue about the development process for exclusively front end libraries, but I don't see many people develop them without node/npm. Hell, JQuery has a package.json, and:
"In order to build jQuery, you need to have the latest Node.js/npm and git 1.7 or later"
I understand what you're saying, but it's completely contextual. The title of this article is "All javascript libraries...". Maybe it's just that I'm not a front-end-only developer. I have no clue about the development process for exclusively front end libraries, but I don't see many people develop them without node/npm. Hell, JQuery has a package.json, and:
"In order to build jQuery, you need to have the latest Node.js/npm and git 1.7 or later"
https://github.com/jquery/jquery