Code Olympics 2025: 66 Teams Prove 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. When Code Olympics 2025 stripped away these safety nets—requiring 66 teams to build functional applications using only built-in functions, a maximum of 8 variables, or fewer than 200 lines of code—the results challenged comfortable assumptions about what constitutes “realistic”…