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npm did a fantastic job. Before it JS "dependency management" has been copying other people's scripts from random websites, embedding them in countless performa
by pornel 6y ago
npm did a fantastic job. Before it JS "dependency management" has been copying other people's scripts from random websites, embedding them in countless performance-degrading <script> tags, and never updating the code ever.
- motogpjimbo 6y agoOn the other hand, the tedium of manually copying <script> tags onto each page of an application naturally encourages developers to try to limit the total number of them. Nowadays, no-one blinks an eyelid when `npm install foo` drops 1000 packages in your node_modules directory.