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No, and that detail is dangerously missing from the advice. lol Anyone that does this and has teams on Mac, Windows and Linux will find out how crappy this is very quickly.


It’s even worse than that. If you support all LTS/current Node versions—as is, and should be, very common for libraries—it'll break even on a single platform. I’m sure it’s solvable, but the solution would be so complex it’s tantamount to building a new package manager.




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