big +1 from me, the API Couch gives you is awful to work with On Thursday, 6 February 2014 05:14:19 UTC-8, Francesco Mari wrote: > > In the last few days I played around with a local npm registry mirror, and > I went through some code from the NPM tool and related utility modules. > > I found out that the current HTTP API exposed from the npm registry is too > tied to the CouchDB HTTP API, especially regarding authentication, > authorization and module updates (e.g. attachments API). Some parts of the > API, on the other hand, are not really useful to the core usage of the npm > tool, and I think they are mainly there to satisfy the needs of the > npmjs.org website (e.g. stars by users, stars by package, latest > packages, etc.). > > I think that the whole ecosystem could benefit from a standardization of > the core HTTP API. If we define the behaviour that the npm tool expects to > correctly work, and the core functionalities that must be supported, it > could be way easier to implement different variations of an npm server. > Given a stable API, different implementations of the npm server could be > written, with different options about data storage, additional features, > different authentication methods and so on. > > I hope that in the (near) future a community effort could be done to > produce a stable version of the npm API. What do you think about it? >
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