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jgillich
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Material Design Icons
npm is actually a great tool to get dependencies of all kinds, not just JavaScript files.
shocks
on Oct 17, 2014
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Isn't that what bower is for?
milkytoast
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Sure - but a ton of people are swapping over to things like Browserify, which use NPM as the package manager even on the front end.
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https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/blob/master/...
thoughtpalette
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Yes. npm should be node dependencies and bower is library/framework dependencies.
sehr
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No. NPM is used all the time for front end specific dependencies. Even angular uses it now
thoughtpalette
on Oct 20, 2014
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Oh, good to know. I'll look into the reasoning for that.
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