I remember this issue.
It was funny and scared a bit how node dependency works.
Some said, node ecosystem was a bit too exagerated to relay on very tiny library like that.
On other side having on a good number of dependencies on your package.json is a good sign, because you have a strong structured ecosystem to relay onto.
Keep in mind a singular angular app has about 1Gb of node_modules dependencies whereas a java spring boot app is hardly so big :)