I've been copy-pasting small modules directly into my projects. That way I can look them over and see if they're OK and it saves me an install and possible future npm-jacking. There's a whole ton of small things that rarely need any maintenance, and if they do, they're small enough that I can fix myself. Worst case I paste in the new version (I press 'y' on github and paste the link at the top of the file so I can find it again)