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Interesting that npm is being used to deploy a regular old CLI application that has essentially nothing to do with javascript development. Are we seeing the fut
by shawnz 13y ago
Interesting that npm is being used to deploy a regular old CLI application that has essentially nothing to do with javascript development. Are we seeing the future of package management with these distribution-agnostic tools?
- tokenizerrr 13y agoIt's written in javascript and requires nodejs to function, which comes with npm
- jonpaul 13y agoThis is a very common practice if the CLI application depends upon Node.js.
- phillmv 13y agoNo, you're just seeing javascript come into its own as a general purpose language community. The surprising part isn't that it's being shipped in npm, it's more that people like programming these sorts of tools in javascript. This sort of thing is common in Ruby and Python-land. And infinitely better than the `curl foo.io/trolol.sh | sh` we've seen emerge in the last couple of years.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- philsnow 13y agos/emerge/re-emerge/ This kind of thing was somewhat common back when rsh / telnet were the usual ways of accessing remote systems.
- staunch 13y agoPeople have been doing this with CPAN for many years. See: LWP and it's GET, POST, lwp-request utilities.
- shurcooL 13y agoI really want to try the functionality of this, but I don't have npm... I might just have to get it. :(
- tracker1 13y agoInstall from NodeJS.org it comes with npm. Note: this tool is apparently linux centric. You should have a development environment (c++, make, etc) installed as well as Python 2.7 in order to work with development modules. As some module mature, they do offer bre-built binaries as needed.