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Quelle horreur - clearly web tech is the future of UI, and electron is a reasonable choice until a better solution comes along, but the ecosystem is a foul mess
by crispinb 7y ago
Quelle horreur - clearly web tech is the future of UI, and electron is a reasonable choice until a better solution comes along, but the ecosystem is a foul mess for developers. `npm [anything]` fills your hard drive with an astronomical tangle of hideous code. And there's webpack. You will end up wanting to strangle yourself. Avoid unless you really need it.
- alyandon 7y agoI'm normally a backend developer but I was fooling around with using vue.js + jquery to build a simple SPA without the typical process of npm install <entire world>. When it came time to finally bundle my app into a single html + js file I settled on (well was forced to really) npm install rollup. After installing rollup, I had a package-lock.json file that was 1880 lines long with approximately 150 or so dependencies and a node_modules directory so huge that vscode choked trying to parse everything in it. To its credit, vscode asked me if I wanted to exclude node_modules from future consideration. All that from installing a single tool via npm. I just don't get modern web development.