"Repeatability? Suppose you manually install some dep, which turns out to be at version 0.2.5.. and code to that. Then you want to run your code on another machine 3 months later. You npm install foodep and you've got 0.3.1 which has incompatible changes, you don't even remember which version you had previously installed. By defining your deps in a package.json file you're able to repeatedly deploy and know you've got what you need, at the right version."
Ahhhhh okay. Gotcha. On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Repeatability? Suppose you manually install some dep, which turns out to > be at version 0.2.5.. and code to that. Then you want to run your code on > another machine 3 months later. You npm install foodep and you've got 0.3.1 > which has incompatible changes, you don't even remember which version you > had previously installed. By defining your deps in a package.json file > you're able to repeatedly deploy and know you've got what you need, at the > right version. > > > On Friday, March 28, 2014 3:17:39 PM UTC+11, Frank Z wrote: > >> But if I already installed the dependencies in my node_module folder, >> what does it matter? >> >> >> -- > -- > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/RK3EL4f2GUM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
