I’m writing some javascript (for the web) for the first time in a long time and I am realizing that I would be well served by using a bit of tooling like eslint and standardjs.
I am reluctantly willing to apt install nodejs but I am not willing to use npm because of my impression that it is a fractal of yolo curl | bash philosophy which will randomly install and automatically run malware or indistinguishable-from-malware garbage I don’t want.
So, my question is: how can I install things like standardjs without using npm?
Please do not tell me that I should just use npm.
Anything that requires me to use a package manager for my apps, I skip entirely. I started on the web before the web was a thing, and I like putting files where I want them. I can manage dependencies just fine, thank you very much.