As a non-user of Deno, I’m curious, how do people tend to manage dependency version centralisation in Deno? I suppose this will apply to existing Deno as well as npm imports. I can just see you ending up having to change “import express from "npm:express@5";” from 5 to 6 in lots of places when the next major version comes out.

When contemplating how I might do it, I came up with centralised reexport, a file deps.ts containing:

  export express from "npm:express@5";

This would basically stand in for the dependencies object in package.json.

So then I looked up the docs and found https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code#it-seems-u... and was amused to find the same solution, even down to the file name “deps.ts”!

Is this how people tend to work with Deno?

I see it also supports import maps, https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code/import_map..., which could readily solve the problem too. Do people use that?