Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 05:03:18 -0400 From: Guangyuan Yang <ygy@freebsd.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>, yuri@freebsd.org, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> Subject: Node/npm-based ports in 2021 - Thoughts? Message-ID: <CABBk%2B3rjAMfQ424UzoHs2=yVCHDbZs9zZaZYDuqxaVMoO5-Prw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi folks, I came across a PR [1] for adding a new port www/code-server [2], a node/npm-based application. Over the years I have been avoiding npm-based ports since I believe it was not really supported and also discouraged [3], however, I think this particular application (along with an increasing number of system utilities) is valuable and is worth putting in the ports tree. I guess my wondering is: - For this particular port, is there a "more correct" way of doing this? I commented on the PR [1] but found that my domain knowledge is quite limited. - Is there (or will there be) any development on supporting nodejs/npm-based applications? Thanks! +cc yuri@ (for misc/netron, [4]), swills@ since I recalled that you worked on some ports using npm before, sorry for the spam in advance :) [1]: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=256144 [2]: https://github.com/cdr/code-server [3]: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/node-js-based-ports-how-do-you-handle-the-npm-install.56659/ [4]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/misc/netron/Makefile -- Guangyuan Yang ygy@FreeBSD.org
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