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Not sure what's your definition of "vanilla JavaScript", but https://dirtylittlesql.com/separators.js is clearly produced by a bundler, bundling a bunch of npm packages like events, buffer, etc. I would be pretty alarmed if someone wrote a single 7659-line vanilla JavaScript file by hand in 2021.

And of course the SQLite part is wasm.

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Vanilla JS nowadays means not using a framework, in yesteryears it meant not using jQuery, in either case, it doesn't preclude from having dependencies.

to be fair, in case the dependencies are pegged to specific known-good versions and are bundled into one or a few files then two concerns with dependencies go away, namely, insanely deep and wide file system trees and the lingering danger of any one of hundreds of software titles getting malware-ized. One could even add that it's probably a good idea to prefer tried-and-tested existing software over writing everything from scratch.

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