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No you do not have to. ASDF knows where to find your ASD files:

https://asdf.common-lisp.dev/asdf.html#Configuring-ASDF-to-f...

Personally I use the (:tree (:home "dev/lisp")) form.

Just don't put a node_modules/ in there!

Thanks a lot for this actually. I just gave it a shot and it seems to have been the piece I've been missing.

You can load the contents of a .asd file (this can be useful when developing on versions other than what you want in your ASDF search path). It is unnecessary outside of that use case though.

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