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Hey guys, Thomas from cdnjs here, we have been on HN before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412044 - 671 d
by thomasfromcdnjs 12y ago
Hey guys,
Thomas from cdnjs here, we have been on HN before.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412044 - 671 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828516 - 1057 days ago
cdnjs has been very successful since inception in early 2011, this is mainly due to Cloudflare's early and ongoing sponsorship of the project.
According to BuiltWith, we have over 187,000 websites using cdnjs in production - http://trends.builtwith.com/cdn/CDN-JS http://trends.builtwith.com/cdn/CDN-JS
According to w3techs, we have just recently overtook Microsoft's cdn, which puts us in around third place for market size - http://w3techs.com/technologies/comparison/cd-cdnjs,cd-microsoftajax http://w3techs.com/technologies/comparison/cd-cdnjs,cd-micro...
jsbin, codepen and jsfiddle users generally use our tool for code snippets.
We have had no major downtime and only one brief security problem which was due to a library version which had insecure swf's.
We have 100's of developers contributing to the project, and our repository has become quite active - http://www.ohloh.net/p/cdnjs http://www.ohloh.net/p/cdnjs
As always our thanks goes out to the community who help us keep the libraries up to date and Cloudflare's dedication to speeding up the web. A special mention goes to Pete Cooper who has been the primary moderator and sole reason for our growth in the last 12 months - https://github.com/petecooper https://github.com/petecooper
I will try to answer other questions in the thread today.
Edit: With regards to peoples privacy enquiries, because Cloudflare is our official mirror it is best to consult their privacy policy. I have been working with http://taskforce.is http://taskforce.is over the last year on campaigns against mass surveillance so I do take the issue very seriously.
Edit: Also a lot of users don't use cdnjs in production, it's just very convenient when developing to be able to quickly include scripts.
Atom Plugin - https://atom.io/packages/cdnjs https://atom.io/packages/cdnjs
Sublime Plugin - https://github.com/dafrancis/Sublime-Text--cdnjs https://github.com/dafrancis/Sublime-Text--cdnjs
- Fuxy 12y agoMy first taught was will this be the new source of dead links on the internet like url shorteners. Then again we're developers and we can put some libraries on the server as well in case the service dies so as long as we don't rely on them exclusively it's all good.
- pg_is_a_butt 12y agowhy would anyone trust a 3rd party to inject javascript into pages? what is to stop you from altering the packages to steal user session cookies and post those back to your server? "it's just very convenient".... no... it's ALSO very insecure.
- iancarroll 12y agoYou did have some rather long downtime when you ran with a revoked SSL certificate.