I can see the problems of the current situation, too. I guess everyone involved does. But what's a viable alternative?
I have seen a few project that were completely build on its own, without dependencies on external libraries. Not only that those projects turn out to be even less modular (because it's not enforced by a package manager / module system), but the chances that code gets unmaintained are also rather high, since developer time is often rare.
An interesting point is releasing the software. No problem with putting it on GitHub, but if projects are commited to official registries like NPM or Bower, the author should really put some commitment into it. Currently it gets ever more complicated to find good quality libraries, becoming a needle in haystack problem. So a "release ethic" wouldn't be too bad.
I have seen a few project that were completely build on its own, without dependencies on external libraries. Not only that those projects turn out to be even less modular (because it's not enforced by a package manager / module system), but the chances that code gets unmaintained are also rather high, since developer time is often rare.
An interesting point is releasing the software. No problem with putting it on GitHub, but if projects are commited to official registries like NPM or Bower, the author should really put some commitment into it. Currently it gets ever more complicated to find good quality libraries, becoming a needle in haystack problem. So a "release ethic" wouldn't be too bad.