alt Hacker News> Serious question: should someone develop new technologies using Node any more?
Please, no.
It is an absolutely terrible eco system. The layercake of dependencies is just insane.
> Serious question: should someone develop new technologies using Node any more?
Please, no.
It is an absolutely terrible eco system. The layercake of dependencies is just insane.
Node the technology can be used without blindly relying on the update features of npm. Vet your dependency trees, lock your dependency versions at patch level and use dependency cooldown.
This is something you also need to do with package managers in other languages, mind you.