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I'm asking because I'm building an alternative to npmjs.com, including the admin ui piece I have a working mvp, although of course it's very 🚧 if this is something you'd like to contribute to, and you've experienced any of these pain points, let me know - always more fun to build together! 🙏

Out of interest what are your views on jsr.io ? I saw them give a talk last year at FOSDEM and it seemed interesting.

I had a great time publishing to JSR, unfortunately, the reach isn’t there. So an alternative “frontend” to NPM might be appreciated.

but does it need to have reach to be useful?

i actually take it back - yes it does need reach to be useful 😅. try to install your top 5 expected deps from work, and top 5 'fun' deps - they are not there xD but you can publish nicely, for sure!

I searched for effect stuff on jsr and didn't find it. Does it pass thru and install any package? Front page docs don't seem to mention that? I am likely blind tho, i clicked thru v quick.

This is the page I was referencing: jsr.io/docs/npm-com... Worth a gander.

Does that mean I can only do that for packages published jsr? How would I use jsr to proxy, say, effect sql? www.npmjs.com/package/@eff... that is not covered clearly by the docs. Or does everyone need to migrate? That might be fine, but limits how many packages I can use this for.