That's how Maven works but to a fault. The huge dependency repo tends to bog down deployments/releases. Today I use bundler but my solution back in the (java)

That's how Maven works but to a fault. The huge dependency repo tends to bog down deployments/releases. Today I use bundler but my solution back in the (java) day was to separate code releases from dependency releases (separate directories basically). e.g. /path/2/project /path/2/project-resources