> I don't think the deployment situation for nodejs is much better/different from what's described here. Yeah, it's really not. npm is designed by monkeys. I

> I don't think the deployment situation for nodejs is much better/different from what's described here. Yeah, it's really not. npm is designed by monkeys. It tries to be too general and do too much, so they thought a completely open format would be kosher. Turns out, it just allows everyone outside npm to define their own pet solutions for interoperability (a word that zero developers under the age of 30 have heard today). There is no standard way to do the simplest of things. Say, bundle an ES6 file or a CoffeeScript file or Sass, or whatever. "Preprocessor? What's that?" says npm. Oh lordy. What's worse are the standards for documentation today. I'm finding the answer to about 99% of my problems in a fucking github issue thread. Our industry is completely doomed if this continues. Software we depend on is abandoned within months.