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Re:How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 by LaxisB on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:09AM (#12634424)
a big problem with npm is, that a lot of package authors don't use the .npmignore [0] which leads to EVERYONE downloading your source/, test/ and docs/ folder even if only that one file in build/ is needed. That, combined with the micromodule mindset, leads to insanity

[0]: https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/developers#keeping-files-out-of-...

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Re:How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 by pdimitar on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:29PM (#12637353)
That's a very bad way of handling it. When will people learn that you can't rely on everyone being a good citizen? Is it really so hard to realize that you need to make your technology sane from the very beginning?
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Re:How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 by pdonorio on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @06:32AM (#12642774)
Fear not. We have a tool for that in bower https://github.com/blittle/bower-installer, so I guess there will be one very similar in npm too. :)
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