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Very nice. Just lightweight js and it seems to work great.

I was going to download it and found:

If you're not using either package manager, you can use dragula by downloading the files in the dist folder. We strongly suggest using npm, though.

Why would they strongly suggest installing npm? (obviously I don't use node)

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Because of updates and convenience. You could always use bower or the CDN alternatively. But since npm is the way I use most of the stuff I develop, that's what I recommend. You don't have to use node to use npm, but as a package manager it resolves lots of issues even for front-end components.

npm because it's now the de facto package manager for javascript.

And why a package manager? For many reasons, the most useful ones are :

- ease of install

- you can declare dependencies for your plugin instead of having the end user go to X differents pages to download everything needed

- the most important one : you don't have to check all your packages for important updates like security ones

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