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Why You Should Not Use Rimraf
A little over a year ago I got into a discussion about the rimraf package . At the time I was using a mix of Mac and Windows and I was looking for a quick and easy way to remove the whole node_modules directory from an Angular project. My search led me to rimraf, which was touted as a cross-platform alternative to the traditional rm -rf written in node. Why Delete node_modules Anyway? The initial…
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Installing Node.js on Linux
If you're running Linux, and are in any way interested in using Node.js, then your first port of call would by the package manager used by your distro (apt on Debian and Ubuntu, or Yum on Fedora/RedHat.) The problem is, even if you're running a completely bleeding-edge distro, your Node version will probably be quite out of date. So what are your options? A bit of research gave me several options: Using…
