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Probably because students don’t know any better. The instructor was probably teaching them how to “npm install” and uses “sol” as an example.

If you check the package.lock file it’s listed in there for each of those projects.



yeah, Github uses that package.lock to walk the dependency tree. Seems like an easy way to get your project hoisted.




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