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		fiatjaf on Aug 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Duo – a next-generation package manager f... Does a simple `require('package')` without the slashes fetch the thing from NPM? Maybe it could. Maybe it could also work with `require('[email protected]')` and other sugars like this.

matthewmueller on Aug 22, 2014 [–]

require('package') will look into the manifest to see if there's a remote path and version to use, otherwise it will be set as unresolved and ignored in the build.

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