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Npm 5 changes to npm link.

Npm 5 changes to npm link.

I've been following an issue on the npm bug tracker for a while now. Basically, when npm 3 released they made a somewhat major change to the way dependencies are installed.

You can finally "npm link" packages that contain peer dependencies!

You can finally "npm link" packages that contain peer dependencies!

For the past year I've been dealing with an annoying bug in node/npm that there has been no simple solution for. It has to do with npm link [https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/link] and peer dependencies [https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#peerdependencies]. Before I talk about

Why I think "micro-packages" are a good thing.

Why I think "micro-packages" are a good thing.

Over the past couple days drama unfolded in the JavaScript community when a social media company called Kik [https://www.kik.com/] threatened to send lawyers after a small time OSS developer if he didn't change the name of his npm package which was also named kik [https://www.npmjs.

"vpub" bash function that automatically increments your project's version number, pushes to git, and publishes to npm.

"vpub" bash function that automatically increments your project's version number, pushes to git, and publishes to npm.

Just paste this function into your .bash_profile. function vpub() { npm version $1; git push origin master; npm publish; } Then you'll be able to do vpub patch/minor/major and it will: Automatically increment the version number in package.json. Tag your latest commit with the new version number. Push

Optimist Fork With Five Months of Updates Rolled In

Optimist Fork With Five Months of Updates Rolled In

Optimist [https://github.com/substack/node-optimist] is a popular node module used to turn an array of arguments into a JavaScript hash making it really easy to access supplied options from the command line. The author of optimist, Substack [https://github.com/substack], maintains over 300 modules on npm [http:

Getting Too Modular

Getting Too Modular

Over the last year or so I've fallen in love with node [http://nodejs.org] and even JavaScript as a language (the good parts, of course). I was very pleased to find that the node community embraces small modules (aka packages) that have one job and they do it well.