The future of Node dependency management
summary
Explains why the Node community dislikes node_modules and surveys alternative dependency-management strategies. Describes proposals from Yarn (removing node_modules) and npm (a different approach by Kat Marchán), and compares the major strategies being adopted by package managers.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:33Disk space solutions
- 6:47Disk I/O solutions
- 8:34Tool philosophies
- 10:04Yarn v2 demo
- 12:16PnPm demo
- 13:26Npm demo
- 14:32TypeScript demo
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