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If you had to install an npm package by URL, instead of by registry name, would you mind? eg. $ npm install https://website.com/package.tgz $ yarn add https://website.com/package.tgz
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Wouldn’t this only be faster if the package has no deps (or if they’re all bundled)? They couldn’t prefetch in parallel. I would expect that such a system would result in fewer bigger deps, like what we see in golang, java, or in js pre-2009.
Yeah it would. I should have clarified, I was way too vague. The packages I’m imagining this for are top-level and wouldn’t have any external dependencies.
