- Yarn helped solve that, but because of its backwards compatibility to node_modules, you could not have different versions sitting side-by-side.
- Node_modules could have a different version installed vs lock file and no one would know without looking.
It seems Deno is able to solve the side-by-side versions and distributing the 'lock' to the file itself. The Deno team is trying to create a 'map' file to consolidate the 'distributed version' issue.
Sadly, Ruby's Bundler has solved this for years and while I love TypeScript, I'm always saddened by the state of package management in the Node space.
I'm not saying Bundler perfect, but its basis with canonical lock and ability to have side-by-side versions allows me not to think about that issue.
- Yarn helped solve that, but because of its backwards compatibility to node_modules, you could not have different versions sitting side-by-side.
- Node_modules could have a different version installed vs lock file and no one would know without looking.
It seems Deno is able to solve the side-by-side versions and distributing the 'lock' to the file itself. The Deno team is trying to create a 'map' file to consolidate the 'distributed version' issue.
Sadly, Ruby's Bundler has solved this for years and while I love TypeScript, I'm always saddened by the state of package management in the Node space.
I'm not saying Bundler perfect, but its basis with canonical lock and ability to have side-by-side versions allows me not to think about that issue.