alt Hacker NewsNodejs itself is, but when you install a node project manually, you type npm install and wait while it downloads the 500 different packages it depends on.
Debian follows the same philosophy as for other more traditional languages and expects that all these dependencies are packaged as individual Debian packages.
Just jumping in to say that this is making me genuinely reconsider adopting a licence/policy that forbids repackaging: the fact that someone can repackage my project, but worse, and still use my project's name? Absolutely not. I do not want the burden that inevitably comes when people complain to me that this or that is missing from a repackage.