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A quick guide to the differences between npm ci and npm install.

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Airdrop determines when you can skip building static assets, saving a LOT of time and server resources in continuous integration and deployment.

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In the JavaScript world promises are a great way to deal with stuff that needs to happen asynchronously. But there's also another new way to go about it: async/await.

In case you missed it, Node now supports async/await out of the box since version 7.6. If you haven’t tried it yet, here are a bunch of reasons with examples why you should adopt it immediately and never look back.

For those who have never heard of this topic before, here’s a quick intro

• Async/await is a new way to write asynchronous code. Previous options for asynchronous code are callbacks and promises.
• Async/await is actually built on top of promises. It cannot be used with plain callbacks or node callbacks.
• Async/await is, like promises, non blocking.
• Async/await makes asynchronous code look and behave a little more like synchronous code. This is where all its power lies.

https://hackernoon.com/6-reasons-why-javascripts-async-await-blows-promises-away-tutorial-c7ec10518dd9

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Matt Stauffer wrote down his experiences with creating a simple app on Gomix, a platform to easily create node powered sites right in your browser.

Gomix is a platform that makes it absurdly easy to spin up a new app (static HTML or Node) and see it online instantly. You can also invite your friends to collaborate, and the moment you make a change in the editor, your site updates. So, at this point I'm using Gomix and Node, and Express is an easy pick.

I strongly considered using Firebase for data storage, but the Gomix team linked me to this Gomix site using Google Spreadsheets as the backing data source and I really wanted to try it out.

So we've now settled: I'll take my old HTML and JavaScript, but instead of the JavaScript loading its data from JSON files, I'll run an Express app on Gomix pulling the data from Google Spreadsheets and output its data in a JSON format. No big deal.

https://mattstauffer.co/blog/moving-tech-forward-with-gomix-express-and-google-spreadsheets

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Jordan Scales examined the contents of the node_modules directory a discovered a lot of junk.

While code bloat continues to slow down our websites, drain our batteries, and make “npm install” slow for a few seconds, many developers like myself have decided to carefully audit the dependencies we bring into our projects. It’s time we as a community stand up and say enough is enough, this community belongs to all of us, and not just a handful of JavaScript developers with great hair.

I decided to document my experiences in auditing my projects’ dependencies, and I hope you find the following information useful.

https://medium.com/friendship-dot-js/i-peeked-into-my-node-modules-directory-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next-b89f63d21558

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