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vvo / should-I-pin-npm-dependencies?.md
Last active March 8, 2017 22:12
About authoring frontend libraries, building them, publishing to npm and dependencies

You have a nice library published on npm but asking yourselve if you should declare your dependencies as lodash: "3.10.0" (known as "pin" a dependency) or lodash: "^3.10.0"?

As library authors we should not pin dependencies but ask our users to do use npm shrinkwrap in their own app.

Here's why:

Pinning dependencies will result in duplicated code and modules in builds

If you pin your dependencies the issue is that anyone using your module will may not benefit from shared dependencies. If your module user has lodash: "^3.11.0" then since you declared

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novemberborn / setup.md
Created January 7, 2016 14:28
OS X Dnsmasq setup for .dev domains

Install dnsmasq using Homebrew. Edit the dnsmasq.conf file (Homebrew will tell you where to put it) to contain:

address=/.dev/127.0.0.1
listen-address=127.0.0.1

Then make sure Dnsmasq is running (again follow Homebrew instructions).

Create the /etc/resolver/dev directory (using root) if it doesn't exist yet and create a resolver for .dev:

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novemberborn / setup.md
Created January 7, 2016 15:05
OS X Redirect ports 80 and 443 to 8080 and 8443 respectively

Changes with .dev domains in mind.

Create /etc/pf.anchors/dev, containing:

rdr pass inet proto tcp from any to any port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8080
rdr pass inet proto tcp from any to any port 443 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8443

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taoyuan / npm-using-https-for-git.sh
Last active June 14, 2026 01:09
Force git to use https:// instead of git://
# npm using https for git
git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git@github.com:
git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://
# npm using git for https
git config --global url."git@github.com:".insteadOf https://github.com/
git config --global url."git://".insteadOf https://
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novemberborn / howto.md
Created February 17, 2016 17:32
CSR with subjectAltName on OSX

Copy /System/Library/OpenSSL/openssl.cnf to a new file.

Add the following at the end:

[ req ]
req_extensions = v3_req

[ v3_req ]
# Extensions to add to a certificate request
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novemberborn / howto.md
Created February 18, 2016 17:47
Creating a PKCS#12 file from a Let's Encrypt certificate
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novemberborn / howto.md
Last active July 31, 2016 14:29
Obtaining Let's Encrypt certificates for CloudFlare origin servers, using wilee