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?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some NPM alternatives? Can we make one?
#2A wrapper over something like this...
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.
Re: Ask HN: What are some NPM alternatives? Can we make one?
#3the guy who did d3 made an alternative. Nix could be one too.
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#5npm install [github_username/repo]
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#6A few days ago there was some discussion about GX, a language-agnostic package manager built around https://ipfs.io/
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#7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11364190 preceded your question by 8 hours. (-:
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#8Of course, the "packages" being managed are themselves the subject of some discussion:
* 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: