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Yes, especially the notorious npm which is hell bent on installing the entire Internet when I do npm install. God knows what and why it installs the things it d
by thewhitetulip 10y ago
Yes, especially the notorious npm which is hell bent on installing the entire Internet when I do npm install. God knows what and why it installs the things it does
- eatonphil 10y agoFacebook's yarn [0] is a drop-in replacement for 'npm install' that significantly improves install times. Really makes me wonder what npm install is doing. [0] https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn
- dictum 10y ago> Really makes me wonder what npm install is doing Pattern matching. For every dependency listed in package.json, npm install downloads and tests every JSON payload publicly available on the Internet until it finds one that produces the desired npm package.
- raarts 10y agoI don't think parent was complaining about install times.