Inside the Release of npm@5 and Sheetsee (JS Party #13)

Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton talk with Rebecca Turner and Kat Marchán about npm@5 and Jessica Lord about Sheetsee.

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Featuring:

• Rebecca Turner – Website, GitHub, X
• Kat Marchán – GitHub, X
• Jessica Lord – Website, GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
• Rachel White – GitHub, X
• Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

npm@5

• npm v5.0.0


• cacache - a Node.js library for managing local key and content address caches. It’s really fast.

Sheetsee

• Sheetsee - a client-side library for connecting Google Spreadsheets to a website and visualizing the information in tables and maps.


• Sheetsee on Glitch - a sample Sheetsee site with data backup

Picks!

• chaosbot/chaos - a social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically.


• babel/babili - ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain.


• zeit/pkg - package your Node.js project into an executabl


• Medieval Fantasy City Generator

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!