Adding my voice to say this is not a bad idea at all in practice. Before anyone trying to apply the same approach to other ecosystems, however, be aware that (f

Adding my voice to say this is not a bad idea at all in practice. Before anyone trying to apply the same approach to other ecosystems, however, be aware that (frontend) JavaScript is kind of unique in this. In most languages you’d likely have at least one package somewhere in the dependency chain that is in binary form, and those tend to need a bit more vendoring mechanism to handle correctly, unless everyone in your team have exactly the same setup.