"Vendoring" Software

“Vendoring” software is a technique where you copy the source of another project directly into your own project. It is an old technique that has been used for time immemorial in software development, but the term “vendoring” to describe it appears to have originated in the ruby community . Vendoring can be and is still used today. You can vendor htmx, for example, quite easily. Assuming you have a /js/vendor directory in your project, you can just download the source into your own project like so: curl http