Month: May 2017
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Compile Node.js to Native Binaries
Guillermo Rauch (Socket.io, Mangoose.js, Hyper.js, Now) is the guy to watch, and last night he did not disappoint. The following tweet announced pkg – a simple tool to generate a native executable file from Node.js code targeting Mac, Linux, and Windows. Introducing `pkg` Single command binary compilation for Node.js pic.twitter.com/Dbe9L1gb0x — ZEIT (@zeithq) April 29,…
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Understanding differences between npm, yarn and pnpm
Introduction I am not an expert on either of the package managers. Contrary, until few days ago I didn’t realize that npm used a local cache. Unaware, I wrote an article titled OMG — NPM clone that finally makes sense and was called out on some of my false assumptions. That feedback forced me to take a…