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Re: Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient

#4

Post by dragonshed »

ronilan wrote: post #3

Run anywhere without installing locally, just like nodemon. I npm install everything locally, never globally, and use npm run script to easily execute (and chain) stuff. Am I in the minority?

I can count with one hand the number of things I install globally. Everything else is local.

Re: Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient

#5

Post by acemarke »

fimdomeio wrote: post #2

Hey just fyi in case you don't know, jetpack[1] is the name of a very well known wordpress plugin by Automatic. Might cause some confusion. [1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

It was also a Mozilla addons SDK: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack

Re: Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient

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Post by kn8 »

ronilan wrote: post #3

Run anywhere without installing locally, just like nodemon. I npm install everything locally, never globally, and use npm run script to easily execute (and chain) stuff. Am I in the minority?

Nah, I think installing locally is more common and often recommended. But I personally like the convenience of executing ad hoc bits of js on my laptop using `node` or `nodemon`. Why not the same for browser javascript?

E.g. you could do something like:

  cd ~/Desktop/foo
  npm i somepkg
  echo console.log(require('somepkg')()) > index.js
  jetpack
And now you're running some pkg in the browser, to try/test it out. That's what the use case for this feature really is. For real apps, I install it locally as well or else a breaking change in the future could cause issues.

Re: Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient

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Post by echeese »

acemarke wrote: post #5
fimdomeio wrote: post #2

Hey just fyi in case you don't know, jetpack[1] is the name of a very well known wordpress plugin by Automatic. Might cause some confusion. [1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

It was also a Mozilla addons SDK: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack

It's also a set of Android components: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/

Re: Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient

#8

Post by kn8 »

dragonshed wrote: post #4
ronilan wrote: post #3

Run anywhere without installing locally, just like nodemon. I npm install everything locally, never globally, and use npm run script to easily execute (and chain) stuff. Am I in the minority?

I can count with one hand the number of things I install globally. Everything else is local.

Same, the global pkgs I always have installed are:

* nodemon

* npm-check

* ndb

* serve

* webtorrent-cli

* jetpack

Re: Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient

#9

Post by Pxtl »

fimdomeio wrote: post #2

Hey just fyi in case you don't know, jetpack[1] is the name of a very well known wordpress plugin by Automatic. Might cause some confusion. [1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

They should rename it to WebPackJetPack, or WPJetpack for short. That will reduce confusion, right?

Re: Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient

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Post by adzm »

echeese wrote: post #7
acemarke wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was also a Mozilla addons SDK: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack

It's also a set of Android components: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/

It is also an Nvidia AI SDK: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetpack
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