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Discussion on: Deno is coming

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Craig McIlwrath

Dependency by url is nice because there doesn't need to be a central repository, but it feels pretty cumbersome to use. URLs are long and hard to remember.

It gets worse if you want to use one dependency in multiple files. You have to copy the url across and upgrading a dependency means searching your entire code base for imports. This is worse than npm, imo

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Omar E. Lopez

In order to avoid this issue they defined imports maps you can check this video for a more detailed explanation , also the official repo has information about this topic.