+1 for a clean and lean npm core HTTP API. writing a npm registry shouldn't be that hard.
On Friday, February 7, 2014 4:47:49 AM UTC+1, tjholowaychuk wrote: > > 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? >> > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
