That's not exactly what I meant. I was thinking something along the lines of a more universal way for npm to serve up compatible code without the package publi

That's not exactly what I meant. I was thinking something along the lines of a more universal way for npm to serve up compatible code without the package publisher having to pre-compile everything to make it compatible with every possible usage scenario. I'm not exactly sure how that would work, but I think it's a bad idea to push all that to package publishers .