I'm not sure that the lack of a package manager is something I consider a feature or benefit. Npm is one of the single greatest things to come out of node. I'm sure living without it in Deno has its advantages, but I could definitely imagine some disadvantages that I'm not sure why I would have to live with
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Npm standardized package management for Node. But that itself is the problem.
I see your point, however. As applications grow one wants to be able to understand dependencies easy and for the better or worse package.json was fulfilling that function really well.
Personally I think URL imports can become really important when one builds a service containing several serverless functions. In the case of stateless services, you do not want to write a REST API. So they can just be replaced with a script hosted on S3. Publishing to npm would be in that case too much of an overhead.
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I'm not sure that the lack of a package manager is something I consider a feature or benefit. Npm is one of the single greatest things to come out of node. I'm sure living without it in Deno has its advantages, but I could definitely imagine some disadvantages that I'm not sure why I would have to live with
Npm standardized package management for Node. But that itself is the problem.
I see your point, however. As applications grow one wants to be able to understand dependencies easy and for the better or worse package.json was fulfilling that function really well.
Personally I think URL imports can become really important when one builds a service containing several serverless functions. In the case of stateless services, you do not want to write a REST API. So they can just be replaced with a script hosted on S3. Publishing to npm would be in that case too much of an overhead.