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Browserify is an open-source JavaScript bundler tool that allows developers to write and use Node.js-style modules that compile for use in the browser. [ 5 ] Examples
Sails.js (or Sails) [2] is a model–view–controller (MVC) web application framework developed atop the Node.js environment, [3]: 1, 19 released as free and open-source software under the MIT License. [4] [5] It is designed for Node.js web applications and APIs [4] with similar architecture to Ruby on Rails. [3]: 19
Task-runners like gulp and Grunt are built on Node.js rather than npm because the basic npm scripts are inefficient when executing multiple tasks. Even though some developers prefer npm scripts because they can be simple and easy to implement, there are numerous ways where gulp and Grunt seem to have an advantage over each other, and the default provided scripts. [11]
In June 2011, Microsoft and Joyent implemented a native Windows version of Node.js. [19] The first Node.js build supporting Windows was released in July 2011. In January 2012, Dahl yielded management of the project to npm creator Isaac Schlueter. [ 20 ]
The Scoop Package Manager is a command-line installer for Microsoft Windows. Like other package managers, when commanded to install one program, it downloads and installs that program and also any dependencies of that program.
In his talk, Dahl mentioned his regrets about the initial design decisions with Node.js, focusing on his choices of not using promises in API design, usage of the legacy build system GYP, node_modules and package.json, leaving out file extensions, magical module resolution with index.js and breaking the sandboxed environment of V8. [10]
Bun is a JavaScript runtime, package manager, test runner and bundler built from scratch using the Zig programming language. [4] [5] It was designed by Jarred Sumner as a drop-in replacement for Node.js. Bun uses WebKit's JavaScriptCore as the JavaScript engine, [6] unlike Node.js and Deno, which both use V8.
Around two hours after the original left-pad package was removed, npm manually "un-un-published" the original 0.0.3 version by restoring a backup. [1] Laurie Voss, chief technology officer of npm, wrote that the company "picked the needs of the many" despite internal disagreements about whether the action was "the right call".