How to make use of npm’s package distribution tags to create release channels just like Google Chrome’s — Software releases are exciting for both package authors and users. The hard work of the past weeks is finally going to be manifested in this one shiny new version. All the to-do list items are crossed off, the tests are green, the release blogpost is ready. Soon it will be…

In the JavaScript and Node.js world we’re having an incredible amount of modules available at our fingertips. And we have great tools like npm and great conventions like semantic versioning that help us to make productive use of them. One of the most important features in that regard are version…

In this article I want to explain why this one particular lifecycle script causes so much confusion and debate. — Edit: To mitigate the confusing nature of prepublish two new scripts where added to npm as of version 4.0.0. prepublishOnly and prepare. The process of publishing a package is fragile, because it consists of many tiny steps — each of them important, because the smallest mistake can break your users’…

On March 7th the first ever .concat() web development conference took place in Salzburg, Austria. …

Last weekend the first ever .concat() web development conference took place in Salzburg, Austria. Being a low-budget community event, we didn’t have a lot of money. But we tried to show our attendees and speakers that we care about them. Here’s what we did and what it cost us.