688: Ex-npm Employee Making a New Package Manager?! Vlt with Darcy Clarke

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Darcy Clarke about his career path in tech, working with Wes back in the day, why he decided to build vlt volt, and the biggest sick pick list yet! Show Notes Welcome Building a tweet...

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats · Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers

November 3, 20231h 9m

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Show Notes

00:32 Welcome
01:38 Building a tweet wall back in the day
08:54 How did you land at npm?
npm
19:40 Why do we need another package manager and registry?
22:11 What is vlt volt?
vlt: a new home for open source
vlt /vōlt/ (@vltpkg) / X
Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson
Bun
Yarn
Nx
27:18 Do you see a future where we don’t pre-compile before shipping?
29:32 Why would pnpm be faster than npm?
31:14 What are the problems with symlinking?
33:08 What’s happening with Yarn?
Verdaccio
Cloudsmith
jfrong
Sonatype
socket.dev
Snyk.io
Dependency Confusion
37:42 What do you think about config files?
antfu Config of File Nesting for VS Code
The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem
WebTorrent
41:02 VS Code tip - file nesting patterns
41:59 How does on-prem registry work?
47:29 Where does Socket.dev and Snyk security fit?
52:46 Sick Picks
04:41 How did you get vlt.sh?
05:30 How did you get @Darcy?

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