How npm Works
summary
npm 1.0 claims a working CouchDB-backed registry with one document per package and tarball attachments, and it already hosts about 1900 packages / 300 new per month. package.json is minimal (only name and version required) and node_modules layout is simplified so installs are local unless marked global. There’s an experimental precompiled binaries flow for platforms without compilers and an early npat distributed testing feature that runs dev tests at install time and plans to upload platform results.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 0:51Vision
- 1:34Sources of Friction
- 2:00Conflicting dependencies
- 3:02Excessive metadata
- 3:51convention vs configuration
- 7:19The Registry
- 9:07anarchic dictatorship
- 10:10The cache
- 14:36Scripts
- 16:05commands
- 18:21npm reusable team
- 21:59Build Farms
- 23:02How you can help
