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I never understood the reason why anybody would sensibly install and run NPM (or even any other development tools) outside a sandboxed environment like containe
by protoman3000 5y ago
I never understood the reason why anybody would sensibly install and run NPM (or even any other development tools) outside a sandboxed environment like container or VM on your workbench machine. Let alone cluttering the system with massive amounts of packages that will be a huge pain to remove once they are not needed anymore.
The reason I use a VM or container is so that I can get rid of it easily.
- ghuntley 5y agoExactly. Software development which involves 3rd party code should be done in a sandbox.
- merb 5y agoand of course the sandbox is also third party code... uf... you now went from using 1 third party code party to two. good job.
- easton 5y agoThat's the funny thing about npm though, is that it's so easy to nuke all of the packages that the first thing anyone tells you to do when you are troubleshooting is rm -rf node_modules. Python can be harder if you're not paying attention to where you're pip installing.