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Re:Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks by tambourine_man on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @08:14AM (#31178934)
These days it’s cool to mock npm, but it was package management done right™ back then.

I hate all of them, use only when it’s almost inevitable, so I can’t really have an objective opinion.

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Re:Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks by bin_bash on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @08:57AM (#31179283)
Oh it was mocked back then too—mostly for the pre-npm@3 releases that didn't dedupe. If you thought node_modules was big today, imagine what it was like then.

Though it clearly worked well enough to be fantastically successful despite valid complaints about it.

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Re:Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks by kmeisthax on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @04:04PM (#31185040)
Early npm would regularly create directory trees so deep Windows couldn't delete them, and I was just using it to pull down LESS and friends.
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