argh. I continue to be stuck in the annoying position of not doing enough JS to really get into the ecosystem, but having to more than no JS, thus I need to interact with the JS ecosystem
someone writes some code that does exactly what I want, and the install instructions are "just use yarn add or npm -i!" and I'm using neither of those things
I don't want to convert my entire project to EMCAScript Modules and build it with a Bundler. It doesn't work that way and really doesn't need to work there way.