Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js

Re:Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js by cookiecaper on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:43PM (#14158972)

Not sure what your other experience is, but most dynamic languages have simple package management platforms similar to npm. As you note, Java has Maven/Ant and C# has NuGet, both of which are substantially more "enterprisey".

It'd be interesting to hear a fair, modern comparison between npm, ruby-gems, LuaRocks, pip/PyPI/cheeseshop, and the other big ones I'm sure I'm forgetting.

The JavaScript community has had a lot of competitors on this front, particularly for frontend asset management, but it does finally seem to stabilizing a little bit. It took forever.

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Re:Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js by rusk on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:37AM (#14164962)

A "Battle of the dependency managers" if you will .. sounds great!

I mentioned NPM in particular in the context of this being a node.js discussion. I've seen a few comparable tools in my time but IMHO NPM may be one of the cleanest, considering this as a feature of node.js - it does add to its attractiveness as a development environment.

Yeah it took the JS community ages to sort this out, but in NPM there seems to be an answer.

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