Except web development is almost all bootstrapped from a simple npm library these days. You generally npm install and you've got all your dependencies whether it's Angular, Vue, React or pretty much any modern web frameworks. The time for a new developer to get the tooling out of the way and start looking at code is dramatically shorter for web apps than Java in my experience.

It seems like you just don't know how to properly use maven. In my experience it is always as simple as mvn {build, compile, test, package, deploy}.