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> The WinterJS server is published in Wasmer as wasmer/winterjs.

Struggling with the assumed knowledge here, and having to hop a number of pages. What is wasmer? Why is this published there and not npm.

I think there is a new set or layer of terminology, some very close to each other, that the wasm world introduces but which nobody wants to explain. That leads to confusing when trying to understand a project like this.

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You need to be careful when looking at wasmer. They build upon the Wasm and WASI standard their own stuff like WASIX. Running WASIX compatible services/stuff may not be compatible with other WASI runtimes.

Furthermore they do offer their own package manager to serve Wasm modules. Which is why it is published there.

They are doing a lot of effort to speed up the development around Wasm, but you need to know what you can use with your run time and what is the "real" Wasm/WASI standard.

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