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Front End Happy Hour

Episode 034 - npm install beer --save-in-mouth

In this episode, we are joined by Laurie Voss, the COO and former CTO at npm. Npm, also known as Node Package Manager has been an important tool in the JavaScript community and has helped engineers share their code. In today’s episode, we’ll be discussing how we leverage npm and find out what we can expect from npm 5. Laurie also teaches us some cool tricks that exist in the npm cli.

Items mentioned in the episode:
Node, npm, Ruby, Python, Java, Back End Happy Hour, CommonJS, CocoaPods, Stack Overflow, Github, Babel, Webpack, Closure Compiler, Rollup, Browserify, Yarn, npm Enterprise, Left-pad, Express, Google, Monster Cable, Gold Apple Watch, I am rich, Semver.org

Guests:
Laurie Voss - @seldo

Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Jem Young - @JemYoung
Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers
Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine

Picks:
Laurie Voss - npm 5
Laurie Voss - Slides.com
Laurie Voss - Next.js
Ryan Burgess - Moment Lens
Ryan Burgess - Lin Clark - A Cartoon into Fiber - React Conf 2017
Ryan Burgess - The Founder
Augustus Yuan - Deco IDE
Augustus Yuan - Mocktails Mixer by Deeplocal
Jem Young - Aviation
Jem Young - Music to Draw To: Satellite
Derrick Showers - How I built this podcast
Derrick Showers - Containers podcast
Derrick Showers - Jackbox TV
Mars Jullian - Spotify Mood playlists
Mars Jullian - SkyGuru

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