A few years ago, npm introduced the notion of a package-lock.json. The purpose of the file is to provide a manifest that calls out the exact version of every package in your tree, the last time npm install was run. After running npm install, you're going to see a message like this:
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
As someone who works on developer tooling - GitHub is the holy grail of data sets. There's just so much code out there, written by so many people, for so many reasons. I've often wished I could just clone all of the data on GitHub, and then write scripts to process the data for various reasons:
In March I had the chance to talk at GCP Next on Node.js @ Google. This is a fun little tour of what Google Cloud has to offer Node.js developers.
A few years ago, I put together a fun little app that used node.js, service bus, cloud services, and the Instagram realtime API to build a realtime visualization of images posted to Instagram. In 2 years time, a lot has changed on the Azure platform. I decided to go back into that code, and retool it to take advantage of some new technology and platform features. And for fun.
A few weeks ago I got pulled into a meeting. There's another team at Microsoft that's using our SDK to build their UI, and they had a few questions. Their devs had a chance to get their hands on our SDK, and like most product guys, I was interested in getting some unfiltered feedback from an internal team. Before getting into details, someone dropped the phrase "Please don't take this personally, but..."
The feedback that comes after that sentence is really important. We write it down. We share it with the team. We stack it up against other priorities, compare it with feedback from teams who have similar pain points, and use it to find a way to make our product better. Customer feedback (from an internal team or external customer) is so incredibly critical, that any product team has a similar pattern/process for dealing with it. So what's the problem?
Any feedback that starts with "Don't take this personally" really pisses me off. When you say this to someone, you're making one of two judgments about this person: