create-react-app starts with 1506 deps:
$ npx create-react-app my-app
$ find my-app/node_modules -name package.json | wc -l
1506 $ npx create-react-app my-app
$ find my-app/node_modules -name package.json | wc -l
1506The actual runtime dependencies of a react app are basically just react and react-dom.