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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

For the first feature, I think the package manager should at least document which version of node is required and fail with an explicit error message if it's not present.

The third feature was already present in Makefiles - although obviously in a crude implementation compared to what Gradle is doing.
docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/...

Update: maybe my questions are more about Webpack than about npm/entropic