Code Olympics 2025: 66 Teams Proved You Don’t Need npm to Build Real Software
The average React project downloads 350MB of dependencies before writing a single line of business logic. Modern web applications ship with 1,200+ npm packages to accomplish tasks that require perhaps 50 kilobytes of actual code. When Code Olympics 2025 stripped away these safety nets—forcing 66 teams to build functional applications using only built-in functions, maximum…