download-esm: a tool for downloading ECMAScript modules

I've built a new CLI tool, download-esm, which takes the name of an npm package and will attempt to download the ECMAScript module version of that package, plus all of its dependencies, directly from the jsDelivr CDN - and then rewrite all of the import statements to point to those local copies.

Why I built this

I have somewhat unconventional tastes when it comes to JavaScript.

I really, really dislike having to use a local build script when I'm …

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