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		leggomylibro on Sept 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tables Nope; Lua is not a good choice for a website's frontend. But people use Javascript for a lot more than just websites, and I've lost count of how many times I've been frustrated that a JS library is distributed exclusively through package managers like NPM even when the library is not specific to a browser.

paulddraper on Sept 12, 2018 [–]

NPM isn't specific to a browser.

shawnz on Sept 13, 2018 | [–]

Is NPM even usable from the browser in any capacity? I would argue that it's specific to everything except browsers!

s_ngularity on Sept 13, 2018 | | [–]

NPM is definitely usable as a package manager for frontend Javascript applications, just needs a little more complicated webpack or similar setup than a node.js app.

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