alt Hacker NewsFairly common pattern in NodeJS (to store binary blob in npmjs, not GitHub, but similar pattern anyhow) so you don't trigger builds on download.
Not saying it's the greatest idea, I despise it personally, but I do understand the motivation for it.
Fairly common pattern in NodeJS (to store binary blob in npmjs, not GitHub, but similar pattern anyhow) so you don't trigger builds on download.
Not saying it's the greatest idea, I despise it personally, but I do understand the motivation for it.
Most of companies don't even know that node js npm packages has build scripts which do rely on python c++ build tools. That's y. This saves lots of time. Also binaries once checked and published cannot be edited in npm / all we can do is just remove that version fully if below 300 downloads.