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Re: NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

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Post by sethammons »

ratata wrote: post #52
sethammons wrote: post #24

This is one of the reasons why, in Go, my team vendors our dependencies. For any service that seeks stability and the ability to deploy any time, removing networked build dependencies is important.

> vendors our dependencies Is that like a local cache?

Vendoring is checking in your dependencies with the source. You can def consider that a local cache. The next step up is to run your own proxy server (pretty much a package server / mirror). Next is to use a service like artifacory that does similar.

Re: NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

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Post by rebane2001 »

Hamuko wrote: post #46
MattRix wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the first time I've seen "&c" used instead of "etc", I had to look it up. Interesting abbreviation!

Why would anyone use "&c" considering that it doesn't actually save any key presses?

Probαbly the sαme reαson some people use αlpha instead of 'a' in their comments

Re: NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

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Post by bengale »

swalsh wrote: post #41
gmemstr wrote: post #6

This seems to be slowly clearing up. Regardless, can we talk about the conduct in this GitHub thread? I know every community is different but is it common to have memes and jokes posted this quickly and often in a GitHub issue? It makes it really hard to follow and discourages genuinely useful discussion of workarounds or progress.

Most companies try to stay professional, and many people carry that behavior into github. However I have worked at a major tech company that trended closer to "millenial" in age. There memes were an everyday part of the corporate culture. Professional emails quite often would have a meme included. I can see someone coming from a corporate culture like that thinking it would be perfectly normal to carry this behavior…

> company that trended closer to "millenial" in age

25-40?

Re: NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

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Post by leetrout »

jtdev wrote: post #44
lm28469 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people getting in the workforce in the last few years have troubles making the distinction between work and play contexts. It's extremely visible on github, slack, &c. which are more and more looking like discord / reddit (gifs, memes, random jokes in the middle of serious discussions)

In my observation, this demographic is most densely concentrated in the JavaScript community. Not sure what that says about the language itself, but there’s definitely a glut of unprofessional JS devs out there.

I really think it’s just because it is the most popular and accessible language to the masses we get a larger sample of the population.

Re: NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

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Post by foo101 »

dajonker wrote: post #43
gmemstr wrote: post #6

This seems to be slowly clearing up. Regardless, can we talk about the conduct in this GitHub thread? I know every community is different but is it common to have memes and jokes posted this quickly and often in a GitHub issue? It makes it really hard to follow and discourages genuinely useful discussion of workarounds or progress.

From the outside, it seems like Javascript developers are all in high school, participating in a popularity contest, feel the need to sprinkle emoji everywhere and communicate solely with memes and gifs.

> From the outside, it seems like Javascript developers are all in high school

I wonder what the reason is for this kind of behavior to exist only in the Javascript community? Could it be that a vast majority of Javascript developers are really in high school? Are there any good stats sources for it?

Re: NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

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Post by lqs469 »

yellow_lead wrote: post #54
warpech wrote: post #9

If this happens in future, you can switch an NPM mirror, such as: - https://open-registry.dev/#get-started - https://npm.taobao.org/ WARNING: Research who runs the mirror before putting your trust in it. How to turn on: npm config set registry https://npm.open-registry.dev How to turn off: npm config delete registry

I would not recommend to use the Taobao registry though. This is operated by a Chinese company. Aside from the cybersecurity concerns, if it's hosted in China you'll be getting bad latency.

It's just a mirror service address, the NPM package is the same. Worrying too much about cybersecurity is a bit of a storm in a teacup.

Re: NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

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Post by jeltz »

colonwqbang wrote: post #37

Is it common to rely on a free service like npm for your company's core business? It seems like you would be taking a huge risk by not mirroring anything you need internally.

Yes, it is very common. Setting up local caches for package repositories is rarely prioritized high enough to ever get done by IT or the developers. There is almost always something else which is more important to the business.

Re: NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

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Post by Finnucane »

MattRix wrote: post #36
lm28469 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people getting in the workforce in the last few years have troubles making the distinction between work and play contexts. It's extremely visible on github, slack, &c. which are more and more looking like discord / reddit (gifs, memes, random jokes in the middle of serious discussions)

This is the first time I've seen "&c" used instead of "etc", I had to look it up. Interesting abbreviation!

It’s a typographic convention that goes back to the early days of printing.

Re: NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

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Post by nurettin »

merb wrote: post #29
imtringued wrote: post #18

Honestly, don't depend on central repositories for daily availability. Especially if you are doing CI that redownloads everything from scratch. Use something like artifactory to cache the repository you are using: https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/npm+Registry

there is also sonatype nexus: https://www.sonatype.com/product-nexus-repository

nexus is also free to setup on premise

Re: NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

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Post by warpech »

lqs469 wrote: post #76
yellow_lead wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would not recommend to use the Taobao registry though. This is operated by a Chinese company. Aside from the cybersecurity concerns, if it's hosted in China you'll be getting bad latency.

It's just a mirror service address, the NPM package is the same. Worrying too much about cybersecurity is a bit of a storm in a teacup.

Well, how do you know it's "just" a mirror service, and it is not using a zero-day to exploit your system, by installing a root-kit or copying your code to their servers?

I agree that it's a valid concern.

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