(Mon Mar 16 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) From the beginning of Node.js, npm has been a faithful companion providing useful package management service to the Node.js community. Node.js would not have risen so high without a good package manager, and npm served that role. By rights we should celebrate that Github is buying npm since a big question mark about npm has its level of funding. But - it raises a big question mark about the continued independence of the npm registry once it falls into the clutches of a big corporation (Microsoft owns Github).
(Wed Mar 11 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) The Bootstrap is working on the Bootstrap v5 release, and the team recently committed changes to drop support for at least IE10 (and possibly IE11). Judging by pull requests, their plan to drop the requirement to use jQuery has been a long time coming. On the one hand it is heart-warming to see Internet Explorer finally be dropped from support, and on the other hand we recognize the necessity of letting go of tools that have outlived their usefulness. Finally we'll note that the predicted release date for Bootstrap v5 is "late spring 2020".
(Thu Feb 13 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) What do we do when a venerated elder is supplanted by young whipper-snappers? Node.js is barely 10+ years old, and the availability of async/await and other JavaScript features means older packages must either adapt or be replaced. The community around the request package chose the latter, to let Request become deprecated, and to officially recommend folks to use other packages.
