npm weekly #57: 2 million versions 🎉 , find “slow-deps” 🔍, poopthis 💩!

Originally published August 25, 2016

slow-deps shows your project’s slowest installs

Last week Nolan Lawson created slow-deps, a package which allows you to measure which dependencies in a project are slowest to npm install. This package also tells you the size on disk and the total number of transitive dependencies being printed.

The end goal here is to show you the potential number of unnecessary dependencies your project is leaning on, and assist with removing some of the bloat. Great work Nolan (and project muse Michael Hart)!

npm goes to Node Interactive EU

Next month, npm humans Kat Marchán and Aria Stewart will present at the Node.js Foundation event Node Interactive EU, taking place in Amsterdam.

Kat will be speaking about the future of npmand Aria will be speaking on Radical Modularity. Tickets are still available (and come with discounted admission to the nearby Banksy event)!

Check out this package: poopthis

poopthis is just for fun… or literal 💩 and giggles. Put a string in and a string is returned surrounded by the 💩 poop emoji 💩, or poomoji, if you will. Created by emoji wizard Charlotte Spencer, check out poopthis when you need a break or a chuckle.

What we’re reading: An npm-Compatible Life Raft for SignalR JavaScript Client Installation

This post by Scott Addie came to our attention recently, and we found it quite useful, especially the command for installing the SignalR JavaScript client via npm. Check out Scott’s full tutorial on his approachto incorporating ASP.NET SignalR into an ASP.NET MVC / React Single Page Application.

npm hits two million versions! 🎉

Earlier this week Tonic released their discovery that npm has passed two million versions. This is to say, if you added up every version of every package in the npm registry, you would count to two million. They found this while examining their scoped package support.

Read the full post for an awesome breakdown of which specific packages, and versions, hit the mile-markers leading up to the 2,000,000th.

npm, or nearly pittsburgh’s moment

Last weekend npm’s COO and human Laurie Voss spoke at Abstractions.io in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Check out the slides from Laurie’s talk on npm, past, present and future. Watch this space for updates on a video.

OS Feels conference videos are here!

Recently the Open Source & Feelings folks started releasing the videos from the event including Rebecca’s talk on Unpopular Tech and Why It Was Amazing. Forrest’s talk isn’t out yet but we’ll share it as soon as it goes live.

In the meantime, check out Forrest’s epic recommendation thread for more video insights.

Finally! Important questions were answered in this video from Nodevember and Node Interactive

Featuring npm human Laurie along with Mathias Buus, Max Ogden, Jessica Lord, Patrick Mueller, and Hunter Loftis, this video taken at Nodevember and Node Interactive last fall answers every npm user’s favorite question.

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