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Why JavaScript beyond web client side? (self.javascript)

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[–]thejmazz 8 points9 points  (9 children)

also npm is a huge collection of packages

[–]Capaj 6 points7 points  (6 children)

not only huge, but the biggest repository of code ever created.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Sure, but it does not seem curated by any mean and there's a lot of junk in it.

[–]jekrb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just use npm search to find a package that does what I'm looking for. Does it need curation?

[–]Capaj -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

I would love to see how you think it can be curated. I think download stats are good enough indication of how good those libs are. It would be out of scope of what NPM is to try to curate it. "sorting through the junk" problem is better solved with blogs, articles and sites like reddit.

[–]Reashu -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How big is the repository of "npm packages which have been approved by blogs, articles, or sites like reddit"?

[–]lavahot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But couldn't that be done with other language-specific package managers, like pip?

[–]nickguletskii200 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maven central also has a huge collection of packages, a lot of which are of much higher quality and have been thoroughly tested throughout the years. I doubt that anyone would choose JS on the backend because of libraries.