> Why shouldn't I be able to run my entire application without relying on 3rd party distribution channels? You should. That does not mean you should host sourc

> Why shouldn't I be able to run my entire application without relying on 3rd party distribution channels? You should. That does not mean you should host source code and build output together. > Caching my dependencies in node_modules is perfectly reasonable to me. Precisely. That's caching. Not source hosting. > It's not like I'm getting binary diffs. It's Javascript. Binary node modules aren't uncommon, BTW. ---- Of course, you could be using git for more than source hosting, and I think that's precisely what your parent was commenting about.