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I'm talking about NPM modules and the build toolchain (which consists of even more NPM modules). This stuff goes stale very quickly (at the 10-year scale). It's

by kozak 8y ago

I'm talking about NPM modules and the build toolchain (which consists of even more NPM modules). This stuff goes stale very quickly (at the 10-year scale). It's good for a project that is kept continuously alive (i.e. when there is a team of developers that is continuously making changes to the project), but not when the project sits on a shelf for 10 years and then needs to be modified.

acdha 8y ago
Right, my point was that this is a subset of modern approaches.
- kozak 8y ago
  You are right.
LiterallyDoge 8y ago
This is a good point, but if you take NPM / Yarn / Bower (RIP) with a grain of salt and secure your codebase against failures, they work nicely as a toolchain.
- kozak 8y ago
  Do you mean committing node_modules to the Git repository? Unfortunately, that's not a panacea with build tools, because some of them contain non-JS code that is tightly coupled to Node and OS versions.