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I have a Node.js application and I want users to be able to develop custom plugins. I have multiple ideas and I am unsure how good they are. I need some tips from more experienced developers. My first ...
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When you use a Python virtual environment, you can activate it for different projects. Whatever packages are in it will be used by the project code. When you use npm, there will be a node_modules ...
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The company I work for is maintaining and developing a web application that uses many Node.js packages. A lot of these packages are really outdated. I can intuitively understand that it is good to ...
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I'm working on an npm package, and I'm kind of new to this. I published version 0.1.0, but when I did, I saw that there was a bug that broke the entire package. I do not think that it is right to make ...
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Say I have a module storage-abstract, which contains abstract logic (framework) for storing key/values. I also have some (arbitrarily many) implementations of this abstraction, each in a separate ...
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This is a question for software engineers who are tasked with managing the development cycle for a Web application using NPM packages for deployment on a customer's Intranet or the Internet. This is ...
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I have a pretty high level question for you and am looking for some different experiences and input. Does anyone publish their own private or public packages for their own personal convenience? ...
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I need to create a very small service which will programmatically make a database insertion once a day. As our stack primarily uses Node.js, we’re going to write a JS script responsible just for ...
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I wanted to know when you are done processing some query or transaction do you usually close a connection only? do you close the pool? or do you close both? Does it even matter which one you close? ...
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I want to warn devs in my team to rebuild the docker containers after installing or updating npm packages. This is because whenever we edit packages in the environment the only way we've found to test ...
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A bit of background: I've been using Webpack with babel-loader for a while and overall the experience has been hugely positive. Yesterday, I published an npm package of my own (to a private registry), ...
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I know with NPM caret, tilde and some logical operators can be used to specify version ranges. This post explains a bit on how this works. The problem now is I find it hard to reconcile the use of ...
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I have a common style (common.scss) and a text direction (RTL, LTR) option file (option-document-direction-rtl.scss, option-document-direction-ltr.scss). And by switching the reading of these files, ...
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I doubt about to which semver version I should update my public NPM package. I didn't change any code, but I had to drop some node engine versions due to a dependency package which had a major update ...
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Imagine there's a boolean status variable that is either running or stopped. This variable is running by default and comes together with a deactivator function. When a client calls the deactivator ...
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We develop two projects (and more in future) with JS, Vue.js, using npm, and we store each project in its own git-repository. We want to place common components (buttons, page-parts and page ...
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Few months ago I started working in a team that develops software using Node.js. Quite often we encounter the problem that has been already solved by someone else and the solution is already available ...
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Say I have this structure: project/ node_modules/ xxx/ asset.js index.html app.js and in app.js I have: const express = require('express'); const app = express(); ...
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Our react web application is broken down to multiple components. Some of these components are part of the same git mono repo and some live in a different repo. Now, to implement a bug fix we have to ...
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At work, we have an application that is run directly on dev machines, but deployed in Docker swarms (a QA swarm and production swarm). The code and CI/CD pipelines are all in GitLab CE. It uses ...
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I've created jquery plugin that is using modern browser's (Node/Element) features. I'm going to publish plugin as npm package. My wish is not to include polyfills code into jquery plugin, bud declare ...
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I'm currently working on getting a good workflow going on, from development to a kubernetes deployment on cloud platform. I'm pretty comfortable with various docker commands, but rewriting long ...
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Does npm allow you to publish earlier versions of a package? The only documentation I could find was on npm’s site: [npm-publish] Fails if the package name and version combination already exists in ...
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I would like to automate the following sequence of events; A new version of Angular is released on Github 'Something' triggers causing all our angular applications to update their npm dependencies for ...
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One of my NPM modules is, frankly, pretty lame, hasn't been worked on in years, has no watchers, no stars, and only ~50 downloads per month. I'm going to abandon it, and eventually delete it so it ...
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I've been tasked to create an NPM package that our Frontend teams can make use of that has styling for the companys UI elements: Layout Grid unit proportions, gutters and spacing. Typography Headings,...
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Is it good practice to store Nuget or NPM (or other) packages in the source control with the source, or to keep them in some other place? My gut says they belong with the source, however a package ...
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I've recently started developing a project in Node.js. Of course, right now the packages I'm using are pretty up-to-date as I'm starting afresh and using the latest version, but there's a pretty high ...
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