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Pika is just some website serving js. deno is including a bundle command that will create a single script that contains all your deps that can be version controlled and/or distributed. also, even without bundling deno doesn't download imports every time it is run. It downloads imports when you first run it or when you ask it to --reload. Seems quite similar to npm in that regard, except for the lockfile perhaps.

They are also working to support importmaps which could become part of this story.

In any case, competent and smart people are working to make it usable. It is still a work in progress but I love the direction they are taking. It will be great to be able to run safe javascript where I provide it with the permissions it gets.