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		marcus_holmes on June 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Worrying about the NPM Ecosystem why bother with the package system at all then? Why not just copy/paste the code into your project?

habosa on June 30, 2020 [–]

Npm provides much more value than copy-pasting code! I think we all know that.

That said if I happen upon a possible dependency that's just one JS file and has a permissive license, I often do choose the copy-paste route.

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