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by XorNot 59 days ago
Caching NPM was easier when you could pull the Couchbase replicate API. Afaik that's gone and now you just have to send a bazillion http requests instead.
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Sending a bazillion http requests within your LAN, or at least your VPC, is much easier, faster, and cheaper.

Both yarn and pnpm support http/2 which speeds up the bazillion requests quite a bit.