One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
For the first feature, I think the package manager should at least document which version of node is required and fail with an explicit error message if it's not present.
I don't really work on NPM anymore, but I do work on a client for Entropic.
I think the first and third features are out of scope for how I generally think of package managers, but I might need to think more on that.
The second one, though, is something that
ds(the Entropic client) will actually take care of for you. We'll see how it goes! Thanks for sharing!For the first feature, I think the package manager should at least document which version of node is required and fail with an explicit error message if it's not present.
The third feature was already present in Makefiles - although obviously in a crude implementation compared to what Gradle is doing.
docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/...
Update: maybe my questions are more about Webpack than about npm/entropic