> And btw, Stack Overflow says --save is actually obsolete since 2013 at least [1], so it looks like you don't know npm very well either. "edited Sep 18 at 18:

> And btw, Stack Overflow says --save is actually obsolete since 2013 at least [1], so it looks like you don't know npm very well either. "edited Sep 18 at 18:15" `5.0.0` was introduced May 25, 2017 [1]. Most linux distributions have not picked it up yet in their repos. Ubuntu 18.04 (released this year) is still on npm 3.5. It's unreasonable to expect a developer to be familiar with the bleeding edge, especially when existing projects are locked into using older versions. I don't know why you are being so contentious about this. I actually love Python and hate JavaScript. But in my opinion, JavaScript has the superior package management setup which is why I am rooting for PEP 582. [1] https://github.com/npm/npm/tags?after=v5.0.2 https://github.com/npm/npm/tags?after=v5.0.2