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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by EastSmith on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:04PM (#11392993)
Data point: On Windows when you run 'npm install' on a react boilerplate/starter project chances are 50/50 that it will work out of the box. A year ago it was way worse. I thought heavily on switching to Mac for no other reason but 'npm install' success rate on Windows.
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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by seanp2k2 on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:58AM (#11395458)
Honestly it's not much better on OS X. The solution to failed npm installs is to keep running npm install until it works. If that doesn't work after about 6 times, wipe out node_modules dir and try again. Npm got lots of laughs at EmberConf this week. Everyone hates it but we all use it because it's what everyone uses.
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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by sushiwarrior on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:16AM (#11395145)
Oh god, the node-gyp rebuild errors...
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