Everything in node is just slapped together with no rhyme or reason. npm module quality is piss poor - even the flagship express web server where nothing works out of the box. God help you if you find a bug in a node core library - the typical reaction is that developers now depend on the buggy behavior and as result it won't be fixed. I've returned to sane programming languages after using node for years and I don't miss node's async nonsense where you can't perform a computation without halting all users of your application without performing major programming gymnastics.
That comment reminds me of those informercials where people can't open a carton of milk without pouring it all over themselves so they need some fan dangled gadget for $19.95 to help them do it. Node has many issues but for me its just really easy to use, maybe because I only use it in a minimal sense, similar to lambda scale as you can see on my sebringj github repos.
It would be nice if there were build warnings npm acceptance would give you so you had the chance to clean up things, such as build tests etc and also a recommended standard way to build them. Then if npm developers were lazy in that sense and letting the warnings pass regardless, when you install an npm, it would give you a warning, "this asshole put in a shitty module" or something more PC.
