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Re:Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More by kentonv on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @04:08PM (#10261327)
You don't have to use that. Meteor has had built-in support for npm since something like v0.6 (~two years ago). You need to declare your npm dependencies in your package.js but then you can go ahead and use `Npm.require`.

As someone who has been building on Meteor for a while and using many npm modules, I've never actually heard of "meteorhacks:npm", and to be honest I'm confused what it's for...

Re:Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More by primigenus on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @04:25PM (#10261461)
It allows you to skip having to specify npm dependencies in package.js.