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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by hyperhopper on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @08:46PM (#10891794)
If more major libraries drop support for bower, it might (hopefully) die soon. What does bower do better than NPM?
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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by EvanPlaice on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:59PM (#10892068)
JSPM!

It works a lot like NPM but is specifically intended for use with front-end modules.

Features:

- uses System.js (a polyfill for the future ES6-module-loader spec

- supports CommonJS, AMD, and UMD formats

- has plugins for importing other types (ex css)

- support Typescript/Traceur/Babel out of the box

- uses a flat dependency structure (ie like NPM v3)

- can generate bundles and self-executing bundles (incl tree shaking and minify)

- tracks specific versions of dependencies

Unlike NPM, module installation doesn't depend on packages published to a central registry. It can install versioned modules directly from GitHub and NPM. The registry it uses is nothing but GitHub repo with module-to-repo mappings and compatibility shims.

Here's the link: http://jspm.io/

Lodash is already included in the registry: http://kasperlewau.github.io/registry/#/?q=lodash

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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by simplify on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @05:03PM (#10897932)
npm can install directly from GitHub:

    npm install visionmedia/express
Or any git repo:

    npm install git+https://[email protected]/visionmedia/express.git
    npm install git+ssh://[email protected]/visionmedia/express.git
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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by EvanPlaice on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @03:03PM (#10933526)
Oh... Awesome. TIL, I guess.

Thanks for the tip. I wish my comment wasn't locked in already so I could correct the misinformation.

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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by seanp2k2 on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @10:21PM (#10892129)
Personally I'll stick with RPM for all my JS packaging needs.
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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by EvanPlaice on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @11:53PM (#10892382)
Why?

It doesn't cover any of the functionality that JSPM provides and publishing modules as RPM only makes them available to (at most) 1%-2% of users.

JSPM is written in Node and available via NPM. So... it works on pretty much anything out of the box.

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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by pekk on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @10:51PM (#10892216)
What do you use to polyfill the browser to support RPM? :)
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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by hnbro on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @10:52PM (#10892222)
yum makes rpm easymode!
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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by javajosh on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:02PM (#10891860)
Well, I haven't used npm for css packages yet, but presumably it's okay with webpack/brunch etc.
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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by cnp on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:49PM (#10892039)
Its great with everything. Frontend / backend, etc. When I removed bower from our app last year, adopted Webpack and migrated everything over to NPM it dramatically simplified things.
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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by RobertKerans on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @01:11AM (#10892597)
For Brunch, looks like [initial, probably v buggy] NPM stuff went into master about 10 days ago.
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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by javajosh on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @02:43AM (#10892880)
I've been using npm support in Brunch and so far so good.
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Re:Lodash 4.0.0 is out by RobertKerans on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:23AM (#10893000)
Ah, that's good to know; I'd been sticking to Bower for Phoenix' front end stuff, might start looking at migrating them to NPM if Brunch support is stable now.
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