I mean there’s nothing stopping you from committing node_modules to git (after running something like https://github.com/timoxley/cruft https://github.com/timox

I mean there’s nothing stopping you from committing node_modules to git (after running something like https://github.com/timoxley/cruft https://github.com/timoxley/cruft on it) and reviewing code changes on dependency updates. I even managed to make that part of the workflow on one team I worked with but several other teams since thought it was a crazy idea. :)