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Give Me A .JSON, Vasili; One .JSON Only, Please

Brian Kirkpatrick on September 08, 2023

Meta-files proliferate in a JavaScript package (no matter what Node-based or submodule management approach you may be using). Every technology you ...
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Prasad Saya

Give Me A .JSON, Vasili; One .JSON Only, Please

The title reminded me of a dialog from a movie "Hunt for Red October". Somehow I can remember that as I had liked the movie and also had read the book by the same title by Tom Clancy.

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Brian Kirkpatrick

Good question. I guess if I'm so focused on consolidation, GitLab CI makes a lot of sense to me. Actions are (in general) harder to piece together into a holistic pipeline but these specific scripts are just yarn hooks so I think it would be pretty straightforward.

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Joe Attardi

I came here to appreciate the Hunt for Red October reference!

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Tori Hevnilva

Interesting. How do you know when you've (if I can play devil's advocate) just bought "too hard" into the idea of having singular JSON content? Seems like the messy scripts are a good sign this is just falling in love with an idea.

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Easton

I think the idea of consolidation primarily appeals to me because it makes adoption and transparency that much easier within the codebase itself. Package JSON won't change much and really doesn't need to be reverse-engineered.