🔥 New blog post: Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?
“Dear JS ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the Web, and the time has come for an intervention.”
Read more: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/web-deps/
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Last week, I wrote
https://front-end.social/@leaverou/115855359656038697
It was even on the cover of 
@javascriptweekly!
I since discovered there *is* a way to inject import maps w/ JS! JSPM v4 does it too.
This is a GAMECHANGER.
It meant my vision of dependency mgmt in the browser w/ Node-like DX is possible, today!
✅ No watcher
✅ No transpilation
✅ No CDN
✅ Granular caching
I *had* to build it. I dropped everything for 3 days, and now have a working prototype.
Who wants to try it out before release? Reply privately.
