In this episode, we are joined by Laurie Voss, the COO and former CTO at npm. Npm, also known as Node Package Manager has been an important tool in the JavaScript community and has helped engineers share their code. In today’s episode, we’ll be discussing how we leverage npm and find out what we can expect from npm 5. Laurie also teaches us some cool tricks that exist in the npm cli.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Node, npm, Ruby, Python, Java, Back End Happy Hour, CommonJS, CocoaPods, Stack Overflow, Github, Babel, Webpack, Closure Compiler, Rollup, Browserify, Yarn, npm Enterprise, Left-pad, Express, Google, Monster Cable, Gold Apple Watch, I am rich, Semver.org

Guests:

Laurie Voss - @seldo

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Picks:

Laurie Voss - npm 5

Laurie Voss - Slides.com

Laurie Voss - Next.js

Ryan Burgess - Moment Lens

Ryan Burgess - Lin Clark - A Cartoon into Fiber - React Conf 2017

Ryan Burgess - The Founder

Augustus Yuan - Deco IDE

Augustus Yuan - Mocktails Mixer by Deeplocal

Jem Young - Aviation

Jem Young - Music to Draw To: Satellite

Derrick Showers - How I built this podcast

Derrick Showers - Containers podcast

Derrick Showers - Jackbox TV

Mars Jullian - Spotify Mood playlists

Mars Jullian - SkyGuru