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No npm install. No dev server. A faster way to iterate on React UIs?
You've done this a hundred times. Clone a template. npm install. Wait. Maybe a peer dependency fight. Fix the node version. Install again. Start the dev server. Wait for the first compile. Now you can
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Tarun Sharma
React.js Frontend Web Developer | Next.js Specialist
The "where do the packages even come from" section is the part I'd want more detail on. For a template pinning an exact version that's already been yanked or deprecated on the registry, does the CDN resolution just fail at that point, or do you keep some kind of version snapshot cache so old templates stay openable even after upstream changes?