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Great Now We Wait

8 days ago 164.0K views 0 shares

You innocently add a tiny 1KB package to your project, and suddenly your terminal transforms into a black hole of dependency hell. First, you're standing impatiently. Then checking your watch. Next thing you know, you're sitting in the field contemplating your life choices. Finally, you're just lying there, accepting your mortality as npm installs the entire internet just to make your button slightly rounder. The circle of JavaScript life: birth, dependency installation, death.

Npm Install: The Universal Hacking Accusation

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29 days ago 111.5K views 0 shares

Npm Install: The Universal Hacking Accusation

The eternal struggle of developers trying to help non-tech friends with their computers. You innocently type "npm install" to set up a cool project, and suddenly you're being accused of cyber espionage by someone who thinks command line = hacking. Nothing says "I'm a dangerous computer criminal" quite like installing a React todo app. The best part? Explaining that npm stands for "Node Package Manager" only makes you sound even more suspicious. Next time just tell them you're "downloading more RAM" – they'll believe that.

Npm Install Is Object

Javascript Webdev React Programming Frontend

1 month ago 140.5K views 0 shares

Oh. My. God. The absolute DRAMA of JavaScript developers! 🙄 Instead of writing a simple function themselves, they'll drag in 47 BAJILLION npm packages like SpongeBob hauling that ridiculous mountain of presents! Why write 10 lines of code when you can install an entire ecosystem with 9,427 dependencies that'll break in six months? The shopping cart is literally SCREAMING under the weight of all those unnecessary packages! Meanwhile, the function they needed could've been written faster than it takes to type "npm install massive-overkill-package-for-simple-task"! It's the developer equivalent of buying an entire Home Depot to hang a single picture frame!

Node Js Hipsters

Cloud AI Javascript Frontend Backend

1 month ago 132.5K views 0 shares

Content You're a bunch of node.js hipsters that just HAVE to install everything you read on Hacker News! But Docker allows us to run our applications anywhere! Do you hear yourself? Why do we need docker if we're running a VM? A container inside a container!!!

Unpacking The Node

Javascript Backend Cloud

1 month ago 106.0K views 0 shares

Content node_modules folder

The Node_Modules Backpacking Adventure

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend

1 month ago 186.8K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle of modern web development: Your actual app code is a measly 300kb, but somehow you're lugging around 12GB of node_modules like some kind of digital pack mule. Nothing says "efficient coding" like needing 40,000x more space for dependencies than your actual product. And we wonder why our laptops sound like they're preparing for takeoff every time we run npm install .

Npm Install Malware: The Self-Destructive Curiosity

Javascript Webdev Security Programming Frontend

2 months ago 134.4K views 0 shares

Npm Install Malware: The Self-Destructive Curiosity

Ah, the JavaScript ecosystem's most dedicated users - people who literally type "npm install malware" and hit enter. The package has 12 weekly downloads, was last updated 9 years ago, and somehow still claims 12 victims weekly. The best part? It's ISC licensed, so you're legally permitted to destroy your own system! How thoughtful! I'm torn between admiring these developers' curiosity and questioning their survival instincts. It's like watching someone lick a frozen pole "just to see what happens" - except with their production servers.

People Do It For You

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

3 months ago 155.8K views 0 shares

When you need to check if a number is odd, but writing n % 2 !== 0 is too mainstream, so you create a 1.3M downloads/month npm package that emails Google and Reddit support to ask them. The function has 50 lines of code to send emails, parse responses, and return a Promise, when it could be a one-liner. Modern JavaScript development in its purest form - why solve a problem in 1 line when you can create an entire microservice ecosystem?

The Programmer's Confidence Curve

Programming Webdev Javascript Debugging Frontend

3 months ago 147.2K views 0 shares

The eternal programmer journey in one graph! First, you install Node.js and suddenly you're a "full-stack developer" conquering Mount Stupid with unearned confidence. Then reality hits—your app crashes in production, your dependencies break, and you discover there are 47 JavaScript frameworks you've never heard of. Welcome to the Valley of Despair! Eventually, you start climbing that Slope of Enlightenment, learning that semicolons aren't optional (fight me), and that StackOverflow isn't just a website but a lifestyle. If you survive long enough, you might reach the Plateau of Sustainability, where you finally admit that no one—absolutely no one—understands webpack configs.

Modern Frontend Stack

React Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend

3 months ago 201.9K views 0 shares

Backend developers live in a simpler world. Need to print "Hello World"? That's like 3 lines of code in most languages. But then they peek over at the frontend React ecosystem and witness the horror... To build a basic React app in 2023, you need: Node.js, npm/yarn/pnpm, webpack/vite/parcel, babel, ESLint, Prettier, TypeScript, a state management library, a CSS framework, a component library, testing tools, and probably 5 more dependencies just to display those magical words on screen. The face on the right perfectly captures that moment of existential dread when a backend dev realizes the npm install is still running after 5 minutes just to render two words. Pure frontend chaos.

Is-Thirteen: The NPM Package We Deserve

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend

3 months ago 139.1K views 0 shares

The modern JavaScript ecosystem in its full glory! Someone actually created an entire npm package that does nothing but check if a number equals 13. That's it. That's the whole package. The reaction face says it all - that perfect mix of disappointment and existential dread when you realize people are installing a dependency with its own dependencies just to replace x === 13 . And the best part? This isn't even a joke. There are thousands of these micro-packages clogging up the JavaScript ecosystem. Next week: "left-pad-but-only-on-tuesdays" with 3 million weekly downloads.

Say Good Morning To The JavaScript Ecosystem

Javascript Webdev React Programming Frontend

4 months ago 168.1K views 0 shares

Say Good Morning To The JavaScript Ecosystem

Opening the door to the JavaScript ecosystem feels like unleashing a Lovecraftian horror of frameworks, libraries, and build tools. That innocent "Good morning!" quickly turns into an existential crisis when you realize you're facing a monster with React, Angular, Vue, Node, Webpack, and about 47 other dependencies you'll need to configure before lunch. The beast's many tentacles represent the endless rabbit holes of package management hell. And the best part? By tomorrow morning, half of those logos will be deprecated.

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Great Now We Wait

Npm Install: The Universal Hacking Accusation

Npm Install Is Object

Node Js Hipsters

Unpacking The Node

The Node_Modules Backpacking Adventure

Npm Install Malware: The Self-Destructive Curiosity

People Do It For You

The Programmer's Confidence Curve

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Is-Thirteen: The NPM Package We Deserve

Say Good Morning To The JavaScript Ecosystem

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