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oftenwrong on Dec 12, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: We check our node_modules folder into source contr...

To "vendor" a dependency is to check it into your project's source control, whether as source or binary.

marcosdumay on Dec 12, 2021 [–]

It's to have it come from some place you control. It can be your source control, but a very common way to vendor dependencies on other languages is to just save them in a server somewhere and install pull them from that on your code.

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