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Lodash dropped bower support in favor of npm because "16% use bower vs. 76% npm for AMD packages": https://twitter.com/jdalton/status/677323442488672257 https:/

Lodash dropped bower support in favor of npm because "16% use bower vs. 76% npm for AMD packages": https://twitter.com/jdalton/status/677323442488672257 https://twitter.com/jdalton/status/677323442488672257

magicalist 11y ago
...according to a twitter poll on a personal account :P I avoid bower wherever possible, but removing support does smell a bit like an activist move. There may be more to the story, though.
- cwyers 11y ago
  The poll was, should it be dropped, given that fact. The fact was not the poll result.
bryanlarsen 11y ago
Given that there were 14825158 downloads of lodash from npm last month, that implies that there were over 3M downloads from bower. That's a lot of people to throw under the bus.
- andrewchilds 11y ago
  For what was a single 19 line JSON file: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/commit/3b86574b4da0828f6afb4d07b8320c27c56a98f9 https://github.com/lodash/lodash/commit/3b86574b4da0828f6afb...
- jdd 11y ago
  According to bower stats over the last 7 days lodash was installed 23 times compared to 4 million npm downloads & 181 new npm packages depending on it. http://bower.io/stats/ http://bower.io/stats/ http://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=lodash http://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=lodash https://gist.github.com/anvaka/8e8fa57c7ee1350e3491/revisions https://gist.github.com/anvaka/8e8fa57c7ee1350e3491/revision...
  - Macha 11y ago
    Sounds broken. My team alone would have installed it more times that that.
    - jdd 11y ago
      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
      - Macha 11y ago
        After thinking about it a bit more, the only reasonable conclusion I can come to is the following: It's the number of times users actually typed bower install lodash i.e. adding it to a project that didn't already have it, as opposed to just running bower install on a package which uses lodash. Would also explain why despite bower itself being installed 37000 times in the last 7 days, the most installed package is only listed as 100 or so times.
- sandstrom 11y ago
  You'd even need multiple busses ;)
- reustle 11y ago
  Why did you shorten one number but not the other? 14.8M via npm vs 3M via bower
  - bryanlarsen 11y ago
    One is exact, one is approximate
pekk 11y ago
Plenty of people don't use AMD packages at all, wtf?
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magicalist 11y ago

...according to a twitter poll on a personal account :P I avoid bower wherever possible, but removing support does smell a bit like an activist move. There may be more to the story, though.

cwyers 11y ago
The poll was, should it be dropped, given that fact. The fact was not the poll result.

bryanlarsen 11y ago

Given that there were 14825158 downloads of lodash from npm last month, that implies that there were over 3M downloads from bower. That's a lot of people to throw under the bus.

andrewchilds 11y ago
For what was a single 19 line JSON file: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/commit/3b86574b4da0828f6afb4d07b8320c27c56a98f9 https://github.com/lodash/lodash/commit/3b86574b4da0828f6afb...
jdd 11y ago
According to bower stats over the last 7 days lodash was installed 23 times compared to 4 million npm downloads & 181 new npm packages depending on it. http://bower.io/stats/ http://bower.io/stats/ http://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=lodash http://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=lodash https://gist.github.com/anvaka/8e8fa57c7ee1350e3491/revisions https://gist.github.com/anvaka/8e8fa57c7ee1350e3491/revision...
- Macha 11y ago
  Sounds broken. My team alone would have installed it more times that that.
  - jdd 11y ago
    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    - Macha 11y ago
      After thinking about it a bit more, the only reasonable conclusion I can come to is the following: It's the number of times users actually typed bower install lodash i.e. adding it to a project that didn't already have it, as opposed to just running bower install on a package which uses lodash. Would also explain why despite bower itself being installed 37000 times in the last 7 days, the most installed package is only listed as 100 or so times.
sandstrom 11y ago
You'd even need multiple busses ;)
reustle 11y ago
Why did you shorten one number but not the other? 14.8M via npm vs 3M via bower
- bryanlarsen 11y ago
  One is exact, one is approximate

pekk 11y ago

Plenty of people don't use AMD packages at all, wtf?

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