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But this is exactly the way the Web works. Right? And that platform seems to have done alright for itself. For libraries or professional projects, ship your de
by inimino 8y ago
But this is exactly the way the Web works. Right? And that platform seems to have done alright for itself.
For libraries or professional projects, ship your dependencies or use a build system. But for one-off projects, being able to pull in a utility library without needing any tool but the interpreter you're using or some extra build step seems like a big win.
- sametmax 8y agoThe entire world moved out of inline dependencies in the HTML page to a package managers. We invented bower or npm __because__ of it.
- inimino 8y agoWe invented bower or NPM because people thought it was a good idea to have 20MB of JavaScript on a page and 19MB of it written by third parties. Generally speaking, this turns out to have been a mistake.