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Episode 41: Managing Your npm Dependencies With Jan Lehnardt

Episode Summary

Jan Lehnardt is our guest to answer our questions about Greenkeeper which helps monitor and update your npm dependencies.

Episode Notes

Recording date: 2019-07-09

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Jan Lehnardt @Janl

Resources:

• Greenkeeper
• Neighbourhood.ie
• Viewing the size of NPM Packages
• Semantic Release
• Example of a Pull Request from greenkeeper on Peacock / alternate
• Dependabot
• Dependabot joins Github
• Github Marketplace
• Azure DevOps
• Peacock
• Semantic Release
• Microsoft acquires Pull Panda
• Pull Panda
• Angular Team Commit guidelines
• AML in Azure DevOps
• Azure DevOps pipelines
• leftpad.io from npm
• What is leftpad?
• You need to check out the source code for it
• How to deprecate an npm module
• Hapi
• What is string.prototype.padStart
• entropic
• node.js version info
• Code Kitten

Someone to follow

• Base 16 Term
• Simone Giertz
• Kat Marchán
• Kat's episode on RealTalk Javascript
• Jonathan Carter
• Live Share
• Erich Gamma
• VS Remote Extensions

Timejumps

• 01:55 Topic & guest introduction
• 04:00 Is project size a problem?
• 06:39 Origins of Greenkeeper
• 11:50 Sponsor: Clubhouse.io
• 12:15 What platforms does it work on?
• 17:38 How does it compare to Dependabot?
• 22:43 Any pricing exceptions?
• 24:46 What if I don't have CI?
• 28:25 What do you recommend people use for their modules?
• 32:42 Auto repos vs a bunch of small repos
• 43:54 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 44:53 How do I know if something has been deprecated?
• 55:08 Someone to follow