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by rlio 1265 days ago
If you work a company with a large monorepo, you often want to vendor all third party dependencies in the tree — you don’t want the build of this massive repo to be down because one of the five package managers it depends on is down. And if there’s a single vendor folder used by all projects, you’re certain that all parts of the tree are using the same version of the external dependency.