Am learning Django and am getting more familiar with HTML's, JS's, CSS's as I go along. Can someone ELI5 why I'd need nodejs/npm? From my naive understanding, I can download all dependencies as source files and place them in static or go through a CDN, no? Is the sole purpose of npm downloading the various libraries?
How long till this gets into the Ubuntu apt repository?<p>Current stable is still at 8, and current is at 10 [1].<p>Is there a way to get this quicker?<p>[1]: <a href="https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions" rel="nofollow">https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-u...</a>
from what I see mostly removal of deprecated stuff, so a clean up release, which is not a bad thing. Good that TextEncoder & TextDecoder web api is now in node.js