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Ask HN: What are some NPM alternatives? Can we make one?
NPM needs to be disrupted. But seriously, I would really like to see some decentralized package manager for Node.js
- plugnburn 11y agoA wrapper over something like this... git clone https://[repo]/[module].git node_modules/[module] ...and ability to provide dependency resolution along with custom runscripts? Yes, we can. Not a rocket science. How many paranoid freaks will actually switch to it - that is the question.
- k__ 11y agothe guy who did d3 made an alternative. Nix could be one too.
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- urvader 11y agonpm install [github_username/repo]
- okket 11y agoA few days ago there was some discussion about GX, a language-agnostic package manager built around https://ipfs.io/ https://ipfs.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11347163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11347163
- JdeBP 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11364190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11364190 preceded your question by 8 hours. (-:
- JdeBP 11y agoOf course, the "packages" being managed are themselves the subject of some discussion: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798 Given how some of them are turning out to be one-liners, or 11-liners, one wag has suggested that Twitter could be an alternative Node.js repository, and has demonstrated how one would go about using Twitter as an alternative repository of such packages, using leftpad as an example: * https://gist.github.com/rauchg/5b032c2c2166e4e36713 https://gist.github.com/rauchg/5b032c2c2166e4e36713