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I was just looking for something like this. How do I load external node modules into the repl? I tried "File->Add module path" but it didn't seem to work for me. Basically, having done an npm install of lodash somewhere, I want to do var _ = require('lodash'); in the repl.
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400MB of RAM for a REPL!? That's absurdly high.
The REPL is currently using 20 MB of RAM on my computer, so I don't know what this guy is talking about.
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> If every package was 40 MB on my computer, my distribution would be 30 GB. Only if you had installed 750 userland programs. Which are quite a lot. And even then, 30GB for your OS + your third party programs is negligible in even a 265GB flask disk (merely 12% of it). > More importantly, these 40 MB of code and resources expand to about 400 MB in memory when the application is running, but a global library wouldn't…
You are correct that code doesn't "expand on memory" but there is no fixed relationship between code size and memory usage. You could certainly write a tiny program that uses a ton of memory pretty easily.
var fs = require('fs');
then pressed enter. Result:
var fs = require('fs');fs
(fs in the end).
And autocompletion is too agressive. I declared variable `b`` then in new line I entered: `b` and it automatically autocompleted me to `break`.
So I think it's pretty alpha right now, but overall idea is good :) We need better tools :)