Package management – Lawrence Hecht

September 6, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Even Open Sourcers Pay for Code Repositories

Alternative vendor offerings are still commonly used to manage open source code. More research is needed to determine Atlassian Bitbucket or GitLab will lose customers to a paid version of GitHub.

package manager used, importance of different packages for multiple environments

June 9, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Managing JavaScript Packages with npm and Yarn

That being said, it is notable that Yarn users are much more likely to care about managing packages across multiple environments.

node js survey: dependency update frequency

October 21, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Updating Dependencies in Node.js

Last week Facebook announced Yarn, which makes it easier to update dependencies with the npm registry. According to a recent RisingStack survey, 45 percent of Node.js developers update dependencies less than once a month. Whether Yarn will increase dependency updates is an open question, but it can’t […]

80% of production container users view docker a packaging format; Yum/RPM second with 47%

June 3, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

What if Docker is just a packaging format?

Production users of containers overwhelmingly think of Docker as a packaging format. Docker the company thinks it is much more. The chart is from a JFrog survey and was completed by many Artifactory users, which means they understand the roles package and repository managers play. Along with […]