Hidden gems in npm

Node has one of the best package managers around: npm. With more than 50k packages the npm registry has an average growth of 116 packages/day and every month a lot of features are added to npm itself. In my talk I will show some brand new features and hidden gems to make you a more productive npm user.

Most of npm's features are unknown to most developers, but in fact they would make their life more productive.

In the beginning of my talk I am giving an intro on the history of npm and how npm works behind the scenes. I will show some brand new features and hidden gems to make the audience a more productive npm user and also show some really nice other projects from the node community related to npm which will also increase your productivity.

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1. Hidden gems in npm Robert Kowalski @robinson_k ! ! FOSDEM 2014 - JavaScript devroom
4. marc falardeau - http://www.flickr.com/photos/49889874@N05/4772680734/
5. npm grows 0 15000 30000 45000 60000 2010 2011 2012 2013 Package count Sources: Isaac Schlueter: „How npm Works“, nodeconf 2011 and 
 http://www.modulecounts.com/
6. npm Inc. “…everything currently free will remain free…“ - @izs Source: http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/15/the-next-phase-of-node-js/
7. Community news from an awesome community
8. npmd provides offline search offline publishing with queueing full caching of installed modules
9. npmd syncs the package metadata of the registry into a LevelDB
10. European npm mirror Instructions: http://npmjs.eu/
11. Behind the scenes of npm
12. CDN Support +-------+ | | |CouchDB| | | +--+----+ | ^ | | | | | | | | | | v | +----+--+ | | |npm-cli| | | +-------+
13. CDN Support CDN for the tarballs of the registry (which contain the code of your modules) Origin for the CDN is a Manta service
14. CDN Support (json) +-------------------------------------+ | | | | | | v + +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ | | job | | (tgz) | | |CouchDB|+-------->| Manta |<--------+| CDN | | | | | | | +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
 





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15. CDN Support $ npm install express! before CDN: 25.677s with CDN: 4.428s 5.7x EU-Mirror: 2.652s 9.6x
16. Manta /isaacs/public/npm Run computing jobs on it
17. Manta npm install -g manta! mfind /isaacs/public/npm/ # list of all packages
18. Examples for Computing Find out which of your module APIs are deprecated Security Audits on the whole registry (https://nodesecurity.io/)
19. npm New handy features
20. Juriën Minke - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeminke/7009161635/ fast development
21. npm init Demo!
22. npm init - hidden gem $ npm config set init-module $YOUR_PATH_TO_THE_TEMPLATE! Example template: 
 https://github.com/isaacs/promzard/blob/master/example/substack-input.js
23. npm init module.exports = {! "name" : basename,! "version" : "0.0.0",! "description" : prompt("description", "fosdem"),! "license" : "MIT"! }
24. npm repo
25. {! "name": "fosdem",! "license": "BSD",! "version": "1.0.0",! "author": "Robert Kowalski <rok@kowalski.gd>",! "description": "Hamburg JavaScript Meetup",! "main": "index.js",! "scripts": {! "test": "mocha -R spec"! },! "devDependencies": {! "mocha": "~2.1.4"! },! "repository": {! "type": "git",! "url": "git://github.com/robertkowalski/fosdem"! }! }!
26. Boring github urls "repository": {! "type": "git",! "url": "git://github.com/robertkowalski/fosdem"! }
27. shorthand style to the rescue! "repository": {! "type": "git",! "url": "robertkowalski/fosdem"! }
28. Your homepage is the github page? {! "homepage": "http://github.com/robertkowalski/fosdem",! "repository": {! "type": "git",! "url": "git://github.com/robertkowalski/fosdem"! }! }!
29. just keep it off "repository": {! "type": "git",! "url": "robertkowalski/fosdem"! }
30. outdated update "dependencies": {! "npm": "~1.2.32"! }
31. outdated update "dependencies": {! "npm": "~1.2.32"! }
34. better search output trimmed now, use --long for full, long output
35. Why am I telling you this?
36. Christian Zielecki - http://www.flickr.com/photos/zanthia/4085389085 stranded?
37. developing npm git clone https://github.com/npm/npm.git! cd npm! npm install && npm link
38. Q & A
39. Thanks! Robert Kowalski rok@kowalski.gd - @robinson_k