Design and Architecture

[bnonni]

• CLI: DPM cli to "replace" or extend npm
• Module: DPM gets installed into a npm project and can be leveraged by users within that project somehow
• Integrate to npm, pnpm, etc.
• Get it working inside these current envs
• Can I pass customizations to npm install to intercept downloads?
• What does it look like to have a fully-native decentralized web application?
• Can we do something like this?

  dpm install --foo --bar   -->   npm install --foo --bar --import ./register-hooks.js

• Doesn't appear that npm install has an import flag but .npmrc does have a preinstall hook

  preinstall=./path/to/your/register-hooks.js

Purpose of register-hooks.js on install:

• Looks for DMIs in code
• Mutates DMI paths => DRL paths
• Uses code from web5-js/api/src/web-features.ts to resolve the DRL retrieving the record content (package code)
• Mimics what npm does inside node_modules installing each package into a local dir with some constant naming convention