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I hate NPM with a passion but even I concede you could argue that this kind of extreme "plumbing" work is an experiment in world-wide collaboration. I mean tech

by mcny 7y ago

I hate NPM with a passion but even I concede you could argue that this kind of extreme "plumbing" work is an experiment in world-wide collaboration. I mean technically you probably could make a fix in one package and everyone who uses the package benefits from it even without knowing they use the package. While I want to know how stuff works for my personal satisfaction, that's not what business cares about.

duxup 7y ago
It's the best of times and the worst of times, all in one.
komali2 7y ago
This also leads to shit breaking all the time. One time webpack did a breaking change (version 4) right as my team was switching from make + grunt to webpack. It was a total shitshow. Some packages were upgrading, some weren't, some did it wrong and didn't actually work on webpack4. We could have stayed on 3 but then we'd have to figure out which version wasn't broken...