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These days it’s cool to mock npm, but it was package management done right™ back then. I hate all of them, use only when it’s almost inevitable, so I can’t rea
by tambourine_man 5y ago
These days it’s cool to mock npm, but it was package management done right™ back then.
I hate all of them, use only when it’s almost inevitable, so I can’t really have an objective opinion.
- bin_bash 5y agoOh it was mocked back then too—mostly for the pre-npm@3 releases that didn't dedupe. If you thought node_modules was big today, imagine what it was like then. Though it clearly worked well enough to be fantastically successful despite valid complaints about it.
- kmeisthax 5y agoEarly npm would regularly create directory trees so deep Windows couldn't delete them, and I was just using it to pull down LESS and friends.