Do you have a need for those systems? Unless you're working on a large project which has specific needs, you will need at most the package manager, framework of choice, test framework, and maybe babel. Just because you can use more things doesn't mean you need them.
If you're doing something internal and tiny with Vue for example, you could just import it like any other script and not use anything else, not even npm.
If you're doing something internal and tiny with Vue for example, you could just import it like any other script and not use anything else, not even npm.