In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Fred Schott about Pika Pkg, a new kind of package registry for the modern web.

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Show Notes

3:24 - What is Pika?

9:40 - What about peer dependencies?

12:53 - What does migration look like?

17:30 - Are these tools making things easier?

21:25 - What is the Pika Registry?

34:48 - What is the Pika editor?

41:13 - Is it open source?

47:30 - What about security?

Links

• Fred Schott
• @FredKSchott
• Pika
• @pikapkg
• Snowpack
• Pika Builders
• Babel
• Typescript
• Webpack
• CSZ
• Parcel
• Deno
• VSCode
• Entropic
• Homebrew
• Plex
• Synology NAS
• Luke Jackson
• Toolsday Podcast

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