There was a blog post on the node.js blog comparing the npm-shrinkwrap and node_modules approaches:
http://blog.nodejs.org/2012/02/27/managing-node-js-dependencies-with-shrinkwrap/ Basically, checking node_modules into git works fine until you need to use a binary module, or a module with a binary dependency. You don't want to check in binary files if your server is on a different platform than your development environment. You can hack around it by adding rules to gitignore the binary files and running "npm rebuild" when you deploy, but npm-shrinkwrap is cleaner and simpler, in my opinion. Feross If you check in the binary, then your code won't run actually be checking in binary filesyou use a binary On Wednesday, December 26, 2012 8:59:11 PM UTC-8, Mikeal Rogers wrote: > > I wrote an article about it a year ago, it's still relevant. > > http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/nodemodules-in-git.html > > On Dec 26, 2012, at December 26, 20124:05 PM, José F. Romaniello < > jfroma...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > Hi all, I have read few times that is better to checking the dependencies > folder into git when you are working on a project that must be deployed, it > seems that this makes testing and maintainance easier. So, the advice seems > "be flexible with the dependencies for libraries, and very strict for > projects". > > For me the pros are: > - dont have to blindly trust the correct use of semver from the package > owner > - make sure everyone has the same versions > - probabily faster to deploy, since npm install will do nothing > > The bigger cons I see is that i dont like something in GIT that can be > auto-generated. It will happen almost for sure that someone will commit a > change in the package.json updating the version of the dependency and > forget about the node_modules or vicecersa. It will be easy to notice if it > breacks a test but not sure who wants to be dealing with that after all... > > Thoughts? experiences? > > > Thanks! > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nod...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
