Node.JS had that ability for a while before it was incorporated in JavaScript with a feature called ‘modules.’ Eventually, they made it to the language itself and the browsers.

NPM compatibility in the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime has reached the stable stage, meaning developers leveraging Deno now can import more than 1.3 million NPM modules.

Changes are in the offing for the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime, with plans afoot to make it easier to import NPM packages and to enable most of them to work in Deno. The project’s ...