New feature

include { BOWTIE_ALIGN } from "github:nf-core/modules/modules/bowtie/align@somehashabcd"

Go:

import "github.com/google/uuid"

Snakemake:

github("owner/repo", path="workflow/Snakefile", tag="v1.0.0")

Deno:

import chalk from "npm:chalk@5";

Groovy (Grapes):

@Grab(group = 'com.puravida-software.groogle', module = 'groogle-sheet', version = '3.0.0')
@GrabExclude(group = 'org.codehaus.groovy', module = '*')

Example

Usage scenario

Baked in sharing of modules and module version control, instead of tools like nf-core to manage updating and sharing them.

Suggest implementation

That's above my pay grade. I'd imagine it would work very similar to plugins, check before the pipeline starts that all the modules are there. Then store them in .nextflow/modules or somewhere.

I guess that wouldn't be too hard.

1. Find all the remote file requests
2. Check for them in .nextflow/modules
3. If the modules are not there, download them
4. Nextflow replaces the lines behind the scenes linking to .nextflow/modules/nf-core/modules/modules/bowtie/align/main.nf

Same thing as plugins and downloading pipelines from repos, I think.