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> Another subject the author brings up is "the ecosystem". Javascript has so many libraries that keeping up with them, their updates, and using them in a canoni
by cnp 9y ago
> Another subject the author brings up is "the ecosystem". Javascript has so many libraries that keeping up with them, their updates, and using them in a canonical way throughout a large codebase is a full-time job for at least one engineer.
I love the language, but this is absolutely true.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoSame, and same. It's very research-y. It is an incredible place to work if you treat your development process like research anyway, but if you just want to jam through production cycles I would pick Python or something stable.
- Daishiman 9y agoSo, not development?
- erikpukinskis 9y agoI would say research-y development: building with the understanding that some percentage of the time you will be building only to learn. Also, there is a lot of research in design, and I do design and development interleaved. I could carve out slices of that work to call "pure development" or "pure research", but for me, design, engineering, and research are all part of one tightly coupled process. I call that process development for shorthand. Is there a better word?
- jononor 9y agoUse https://Greenkeeper.io https://Greenkeeper.io to automatically get PRs on dep changes. Coupled with a good testsuite, it's work very nicely. - happy user