I don't know why that would be the case. Browserify can do semver comparison of dependencies and not bundle multiple copies. I would assume they were already do

I don't know why that would be the case. Browserify can do semver comparison of dependencies and not bundle multiple copies. I would assume they were already doing this; if not, why? I work on a client-side module loader StealJS[1] that implements the npm algorithm (2 and 3) in the browser and 3 makes things worse for us. With NPM 2 we could load a project without causing 404s (except in the cause of require("./folder")) but since NPM 3 says "install order matters" now it's no longer deterministic and 404s are more common. It would be nice if NPM had some working group to discuss their algorithm and invited in other implementers for feedback. [1]http://stealjs.com/ http://stealjs.com/