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Discussion on: What software development tools (libraries/frameworks/apps/whatever) make you feel most anxious while you're working with them?

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Shannon Crabill

Anything NPM/node related.

It's probably just a permission issue, but I've run into an infinite loop of trying to update one thing, it says I need to update this dependency, but I don't have permission/can't for some odd reason.

I avoid it if I can.

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Dmitrii Pashutskii

Oh, yes! I definitely forgot NPM and overall Node package experience in my list. Huge headache.

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Muttsuri

I had a permission issue to install elm, I ended up creating a folder in my home directory and change that to be the global one.
Npm actually recommend such an approach (though they recommend npx for global execution, while I just added the folder to path)