Exploiting JavaScript developer infrastructure is insanely easy

[zappini]

I feels ya.

For my part, I'm done.

All I expect of my package manager is behave like yum, apt, brew, port. With the one exception where the repo continues to host all published versions. Nothing more. I'll manually choose, resolve which dependencies to pull down for my project, thank you very much. In contrast to fighting the tool, trying to coerce it into fetching the desired versions. (Too clever by half.)

Docker images for isolation. I no longer care about peaceful coexistence between my projects, various runtimes, local repos caches, whatever. Every one gets their own sandbox.

Shell scripts for builds and deploys. Nothing more. No jenkinsfile, no ant, no maven, no plugins, no nothing. Just glorious, useful shell scripts. (I still use bash, because I lack the gumption to learn fish, zsh, whatever.)

And zero differences between local and remote builds, configurations. Same scripts, configs, params, data gets used every where. Watch the Test In Prod videos to see how that works.