why node.js makes me uncomfortable
I’ve always programmed with php for the web and during that time I’ve never needed to download packages (like npm) and update them. When I needed a specific function, like sending emails, uploading files or making my application drier, I just had to look at the documentation and implement it. But with node.js it doesn’t work like that, and that bothers me. If I’m wrong, please correct me
Programmers who don’t use pre-made modules make me uncomfortable. You’d have to spend a lot of time to get a good, well-written and fully test-covered implementation of most things to work - copying functions from PHP documentation comments pretty much guarantees some issues that you don’t know about.
Of course you have to vet your dependencies, but e.g. Symphony modules in PHP are pretty good, no reason to write a worse version yourself.