> Do you know a better way to build/minify js? Perhaps you have all these npm packages installed on your PC already?
If only there were some sort of ubiquitous platform—a World Wide one, even—that we could reliably depend on to fetch remote resources and that was especially suited for executing JS. It would need to run the code in a sandbox of, course, to ensure that it's acting in the interests of the user—a sort of "user agent"—and not just executing arbitrary code with full rwx privileges in the interests of the script author.
If only there were some sort of ubiquitous platform—a World Wide one, even—that we could reliably depend on to fetch remote resources and that was especially suited for executing JS. It would need to run the code in a sandbox of, course, to ensure that it's acting in the interests of the user—a sort of "user agent"—and not just executing arbitrary code with full rwx privileges in the interests of the script author.
Maybe in a more perfect world...
Previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24495646>