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I feel that Meteor is awesome and has quite a bit of potential, but why stray from npm, which is one of those things that is actually awesome about node? I real

I feel that Meteor is awesome and has quite a bit of potential, but why stray from npm, which is one of those things that is actually awesome about node? I really wish Meteor would use npm. Is there some technical reason they don't?

zzimmer 13y ago
Geoff Schmidt - a founder of Meteor - wrote an essay explaining the reasoning behind meteor packages: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/516#issuecomment-12919473 https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/516#issuecomment-12919... BTW - You can use NPM packages within Meteor packages.
- qiqing 13y ago
  +1. And here's the relevant blog post about NPM integration in Meteor. http://www.meteor.com/blog/2013/04/04/meteor-060-brand-new-distribution-system-app-packages-npm-integration http://www.meteor.com/blog/2013/04/04/meteor-060-brand-new-d...
- arunoda 13y ago
  You can use NPM packages directly within the app too: http://meteorhacks.com/complete-npm-integration-for-meteor.html http://meteorhacks.com/complete-npm-integration-for-meteor.h...