npm and bundled modules

aredridel at nbtsc.org aredridel at nbtsc.org
Sun Sep 11 00:01:28 CEST 2016


> On 10 Sep 2016, at 17:46, Paweł A. Gajda <mis at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> 
> Our npm is packaged wihtout bundled npm modules, what is generally good and
> maybe elegant, but it's just hard to maintain as there is over 70 node
> modules (npm 3.x) it depends on. That is probably the reason, why npm has
> not been upgraded from 1.x.
> 
> npm itself bundle its dependencies,so, what I like to do is just to bundle
> them into package as well. It just works and would make upgrades much, much
> easier. Any objections?

This is how node apps work in community practice, and doing this would make me very, very happy. It's basically meant that I don't use the system versions of node and npm at all because they actively fight how node works.

So not just +1 but +100.

(PS. I now work at npm.)

Aria


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