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		favadi on Oct 8, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How we run NPM packages in the browser Npm is both a package management and a package registry.

owebmaster on Oct 8, 2017 [–]

Exactly! But mainly, a package manager. If you create a project that tries to replace it and at the same time needs it to exist, I guess funny is a minimum you can say about.

allover on Oct 9, 2017 | [–]

It's not funny at all. It's totally logical that you'd have competing clients.

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