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by oblio 1628 days ago
There are package exclusions, package forcing and of course, full dependency tree checks where you review what everything pulls in.

The JS ecosystem will probably have to change but because it's so decentralized, that change will be orders of magnitude harder than, for example, PHPs transition from 3 (4, 5) to 7.

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> The JS ecosystem will probably have to change but because it's so decentralized,

Is it? Everybody is pulling from Microsoft owned servers now, as Microsoft owns both Github and NPM.

You're right in the package storage sense.

I don't think you're right in the builder/building practices sense.