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I like it because it's simpler. I know what happens when I import from a URL. I'd have a hard time whiteboarding exactly what happens when I `npm install`.

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What happens?

My least favorite thing about importing from NPM is that I don't actually know what I'm importing. Sure, there might be a GitHub repository, but code is uploaded to NPM separately, and it is often minified. A malicious library owner could relatively easily inject some code before minifying, while still maintaining a clean-looking repo alongside the package.

Imports from URL would allow me to know exactly what I'm getting.

install from the repo then?

You can install a specific version from git via yarn/npm.

How do you trust a url more without reading the code?

What's going to stop deno ecosystem from putting minified js files on cdns and import them?

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