Which is perfectly fine. I mostly want to be able to trivially use packages which solve my trivial problems, so I can move on to something more fun.
The issue eventually becomes a one of search; when I'm looking for a package, how do I know which are maintained, which never picked up broad adoption, etc?
Between the npm registry[1] and node-toolbox[2], there's already decent visibility into it. I often find the output of 'npm search' daunting to the point of mental paralysis, though.
The issue eventually becomes a one of search; when I'm looking for a package, how do I know which are maintained, which never picked up broad adoption, etc?
Between the npm registry[1] and node-toolbox[2], there's already decent visibility into it. I often find the output of 'npm search' daunting to the point of mental paralysis, though.
[1]: eg, if I need a redis client, I can see the redis project is active and broadly used: https://npmjs.org/package/redis
[2]: similarly, http://nodetoolbox.com/categories/Redis