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You know, it's interesting that npm supports installing tarballs from literally anywhere, but we all publish to the public npm registry

You can even specify the tarball checksum if you append #HASH_HERE to the end of the URL! Yarn and npm should also handle caching it in the same way as a regular registry tarball.

Agree. It's like the killer feature of package.json that goes completely ignored. Wonder why. There's even a shorthand if you host your packages on GitHub! You can do: { "dependencies": { "react-router": "ReactTraining/react-router#v4" } }