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Properly patching packages: persistently producing patches for published projects, particularly practically prevented by patch-package policy (10 mins read).
How to use patch-package to modify NPM dependencies, for instance when you're distributing an executable and you want to patch something you rely upon, without relying upon postinstall scripts.
by 
Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#blogumentation
#nodejs
#npm
#dependency-management-data.
In this episode, Gary Kramlich, the lead developer of Pidgin discusses the challenges and strategies of maintaining a 26-year-old open source messaging client.Gary tell us all about how a small team manages technical debt, handles library dependencies, and makes decisions about rewrites versus incremental improvements while supporting a broader open source ecosystem. The accompaning blog can be found at
by Jamie Tanna
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