Ask HN: What are some NPM alternatives? Can we make one? NPM needs to be disrupted. But seriously, I would really like to see some decentralized package manager for Node.js |
Ask HN: What are some NPM alternatives? Can we make one? NPM needs to be disrupted. But seriously, I would really like to see some decentralized package manager for Node.js |
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798
Given how some of them are turning out to be one-liners, or 11-liners, one wag has suggested that Twitter could be an alternative Node.js repository, and has demonstrated how one would go about using Twitter as an alternative repository of such packages, using leftpad as an example:
git clone https://[repo]/[module].git node_modules/[module]
Yes, we can. Not a rocket science. How many paranoid freaks will actually switch to it - that is the question.