jashkenas

Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

sogko

'use strict';

// simple express server
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var router = express.Router();

app.use(express.static('public'));
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
    res.sendfile('./public/index.html');

wesdollar

// Bootstrap Mid-Small - col-ms-* - the missing grid set for Bootstrap3.
//
// This is a hack to fill the gap between 480 and 767 pixels - a missing range
// in the bootstrap responsive grid structure. Use these classes to style pages
// on cellphones when they transition from portrait to landscape.
//
// Contains:
// Columns, Offsets, Pushes, Pulls for the Mid-Small layout
// Visibility classes for the Mid-Small layout
// Redefined visibility classes for the Extra Small layout

dbainbridge

/**
 * Module dependencies.
 */

var express = require('express')
  , routes = require('./routes')
  , http = require('http');

var app = express();
var server = app.listen(3000);

coolaj86

Getting Started with NPM (as a developer)

As easy as 1, 2, 3!

Updated:

• Aug, 08, 2022 update config docs for npm 8+
• Jul 27, 2021 add private scopes
• Jul 22, 2021 add dist tags
• Jun 20, 2021 update for --access=public
• Sep 07, 2020 update docs for npm version