npm weekly #89: npm 5.0.0 is coming! we’re still hiring! npm on the go with n-dash!
npm 5.0.0 is coming
It’s not just spring; the winds of change are coming. Earlier this week, Kat Marchán shared the details for npm version 5.0.0.
The release itself is still at least a month away, but there’s a lot to be excited about. Some of the features include a massive cache rewrite, another huge performance boost, and a sweet surprise of summary install reports in the place of the whole installed tree screen blasts you see now. Pretty exciting stuff! Check out the pull request.
NodeSchool Oakland on Saturday
It’s time for a new NodeSchool Oakland, and speaking of new, the Oakland chapter recently got a shiny new website with all the fun details. So check out the site, register to attend or mentor, and we’ll see you Saturday at npm HQ!
What we’re reading: Bird-flight-patterns made visible through chronophotography
Okay, so this is also a very great read but we’d be lying if we didn’t say that the best part about this piece is the photographs. Check out Amazing chronophotographs capture the patterns of birds in flight, featuring Barcelonian photographer Xavi Bou.
Recommended module: markdown-it-task-lists
If you are the sort of person who is looking, hoping, or maybe even wishing for an easier way to automatically create markdown task lists in GitHub, look no further than markdown-it-task-lists. This plugin renders HTML checkboxes out of the list items and makes things look nicer than the plain square brackets. Enjoy!
We’re hiring (again)!
We are looking for a certain individual to join our support team; is it you? If you’re the type of person who regularly combines empathy and communication skills with a passion for solving technical problems, then please check out the details on our Support Tech job ad and let us know!
Learn to publish a package in 20 minutes with these quick videos
You’re going to want to bookmark this resource for your team. Help new npm users in your group discover how easy it is to publish a package to npm in this video series, Publish JavaScript packages on npm, by Trevor Miller. The videos run 1–5 minutes each and the whole thing only takes about 20 minutes.
Bring npm everywhere you go with n-dash
Meet n-dash, your npm dashboard on the go. Created by Alex Indigo, n-dash serves as a mobile (iOS supported) dashboard to check up on your public modules, as well as to see what the developers you collaborate with have published. Take a look!
npm is everywhere! Even at the …hospital???
npm fan Saptak Sengupta spotted this small instance of npm in the wild. Well, in wild world of hospitals, that is. We’re still curious what this particular npm stands for. 🤔 Where have you seen npm in the wild?
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