I’m current working on a command line app that will grab resources online for you when you’re setting up a new project locally. Right now all the urls for the resources I need are hardcoded into the application and adding new targets require updating the software.

What are the benefits of hosting a database remotely that the application would query to get new packages. Sort of like npm and any other generic package manager out there. Are there any best practises in setting something like this up?