Web development is in truly a sad state. Having worked on a larger Node project I'll never do it again. The only thing you can do is npm shrinkwrap and never update your dependencies ever again. If you update you are f'ed. It's a nightmare. Semvar doesn't help at all. For instance Bookshelf added a method called count. Co worker was on .4 and using count. Everyone else was on .3. 0_0.
https://github.com/tgriesser/bookshelf/issues/888If you want things to just work like in the Ruby community, make sure you shrinkwrap.
I don't think most people run into this because most backend node programmers have moved to Go at this point, so they're not aware of the upgrade problems.
On the front end, people are probably re writing the front end every 3 or 4 months. Moving from javascript framework to javascript framework. Never dealt with upgrading 6to 5 to Babel to Babel 4 to 5 to 6, and npm from 2 to 3. Or browserify, browserify react hot reload, react-proxy v1 only, gulp. Ugh.
I'm not sure it's possible to move a project using Babel 5, async/await, generators and react to upgrade to Babel 6. I've spent hours on it.
Sometimes I think it's all some kind of cruel joke. Look at Babel. I mean a library that doesn't do anything without installing a plugin. At least support transpiling ES 6 and 7 to 5 out of the box and everything else with a plugin. I have to install like 4 plugins to get anything running.
If you want things to just work like in the Ruby community, make sure you shrinkwrap.
I don't think most people run into this because most backend node programmers have moved to Go at this point, so they're not aware of the upgrade problems.
On the front end, people are probably re writing the front end every 3 or 4 months. Moving from javascript framework to javascript framework. Never dealt with upgrading 6to 5 to Babel to Babel 4 to 5 to 6, and npm from 2 to 3. Or browserify, browserify react hot reload, react-proxy v1 only, gulp. Ugh.
I'm not sure it's possible to move a project using Babel 5, async/await, generators and react to upgrade to Babel 6. I've spent hours on it.
Sometimes I think it's all some kind of cruel joke. Look at Babel. I mean a library that doesn't do anything without installing a plugin. At least support transpiling ES 6 and 7 to 5 out of the box and everything else with a plugin. I have to install like 4 plugins to get anything running.