Generally agree with you. But for this specific project the goal was to host the _entire_ npm registry as a mirror on consumer grade hardware, not just the slic

Generally agree with you. But for this specific project the goal was to host the _entire_ npm registry as a mirror on consumer grade hardware, not just the slice of it I personally used for local development. It was part of the (now defunct) frea project: https://freajs.github.io/frea-website/ https://freajs.github.io/frea-website/