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[Feature request] install packages from other registries, or https CDN sources #570
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Thanks, @ortonomy. I've previously looked into this. However, I encountered issues during the build step of a lot of common packages. Some can be installed without issues this way, usually, the ones that include dist files. But the lack of reliability around building packages made me not ship this as a feature. |
Thanks for responding so fast @lukehaas . How do you manage the package under the hood? In a package JSON? Could it be something you put behind an "Experimental" feature wall or "HERE BE DRAGONS - UNSUPPORTED FEATURE" kind of thing? Seems yarn, npm, and pnpm are all capable of handling this (at least from sheetJS's instructions) Come on, gimme access 😄 Let me fiddle with that |
It uses NPM to install and manage the packages. You could cd'ing into the RunJS app support directory, which is where the package.json is and try manually installing packages from github there. |
Thank you! I'll let you know how it goes :D |
Manual install from Notes on my experience: None of that is surprising, but if someone places a |
Motivation
Love RunJS and the node package support. It's really useful and saves me a lot of time to have to create my own little node project with TS support every time I just want a REPL to test code...
But....
Recently SheetJS /
xlsx
took a really weird decision to publish an update ONLY on their CDN as a tarball https://docs.sheetjs.com/docs/getting-started/installation/nodejsSo now, I can't install the latest version in RunJS
Idea
Thanks for listening!
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