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OCHADE EMMANUEL
OCHADE EMMANUEL

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NODE JS FOR FRONT END

I am a junior front end developer learning node js. I can work comfortably with gulp and gulp plugins but I still feel naked with node and npm... how far do I need to go with node js in front end web development?

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Owen Melbourne

You don't :)

Websites don't run on Node or NPM.

They run on html, css and javascript.

Node is only really used to run any task runners or packagers like gulp or webpack.

npm is only really used to handle js/css dependencies.

So as long as your confident in your build process and including dependencies, there's not much "need" unless you wish to just learn more.

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OCHADE EMMANUEL

Thanks sir