/* Code Comments */21 posts tagged with "npm"
npm link: detecting linked packages
2022-11-28
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I’ve written in the past about how to link packages with NPM (and yarn’s too), but sometimes, what you need to know is not how to link…
package discovery: npm-run-all
2022-11-28
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Another entry in my Package Discovery series. Today’s topic is focus lock using ! This is a little bit of an older project, but while it’s…
forwarding arguments with shell scripts
2022-11-28
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When developing scripts to use to manage a project, I often find myself in a situation where I have multiple scripts that are mostly the…
package discovery: terminalizer
2022-11-28
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I have been working on a small CLI to help myself as I reinvent the wheel of taking notes (more on that later, I’m sure). My friend Alex has…
cloc: code base analysis
2022-11-28
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Today is another entry in my Package Discovery series. The topic is project statistics with . Software is getting more complex. Look no…
command cheatsheet: crosswalk from npm to yarn
2022-11-28
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I’ve been playing around more with yarn lately and find myself frequently looking up the equivalent command to npm. Below is a table I’ve…
how to increment the version of your node package
2022-11-28
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Using we can auto-increment the version. To see the existing published version of a package: To update the version, the API is for is: The…
how to execute node package clis
2022-11-28
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In node projects, many times a package will have its own CLI. React, Storybook, Typescript and Gatsby all have their own for example. How do…
global node package management: revisited
2022-11-28
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I’ve written in the past about how to manage globally installed NPM packages. In my previous post I covered how to: See what’s installed…
package discovery: react-focus-lock
2022-11-28
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Another entry in my Package Discovery series. Today’s topic is focus lock using ! When it comes to getting focus on dialog boxes on the…
package discovery: gray-percentage
2022-11-28
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Today in package discoveries:1 gray-percentage. It’s a small utility written by Kyle Matthews (creator of Gatsby) that returns a hue of gray…
quickly retreive environment information
2022-11-28
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I find myself frequently looking up which version of Node and npm I’m running. Today, a colleague showed me how to get it and lots of…
collaboration, local development, (secret) environment variables, and npm
2022-11-28
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Secrets At Remine, we have a shared UI library, . Recently, I had the opportunity to upgrade our icon library to so that we could use their…
package.json script management techniques
2022-11-28
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When you have a lot of scripts in your npm package, it can get overwhelming. Recently a colleague introduced a new pattern in one of our…
rimraf to clean restart a node server
2022-11-28
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One of the challenges of using to monitor changes to a node server and restart is if some changes get cached. I came across rimraf in a…
global node package management
2022-11-28
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When it comes to global node packages, there are typically three things I want to do: See what’s installed (view globally installed node…
npm - cannot read property 'match' of undefined
2022-11-28
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When trying to run an command, you can’t install the packages, you may get the error: While not a root-cause solution, a workaround is…
npm install - max call stack exceed
2022-11-28
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I was recently trying to switch over from a private registry default to the default one. When I tried to reinstall my dependencies, however…
dealing with npm config files
2022-11-28
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When things that used to work break, I want to understand why. That was the situation recently with , the reliable workhorse behind node…
npm link
2022-11-28
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Unless you’re working on a mono-repo, it’s fairly common that in the process of making changes to a code base, you’ll actually need to…
debugging create-react-app
2022-11-28
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In an effort to learn React, I pulled up React’s introductory tutorial. Almost immediately I hit turbulence. I was in the setup of the…