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by Matthias247 3421 days ago
I recommend that too. I only used the npm ecosystem for a short time, and still had dozens of silent breakages from libraries which were expected to update in a backward compatible fashion. And even if a dependency itself is pinned to an exact version, it might be that the transitive dependency of this thing changes and breaks. npm shrinkwrap and yarn are supposed to fix that.