Jun 19 2015
Ionic are killing it at the moment

I’ve just got the Ionic newsletter email, reading through it I am amazed at the amount of new projects that are coming from Ionic over the next few weeks/months, there is:

The team over in Ionic are really creating a eco system around their product. It’s a great business plan, build a free product that users love, then create paid tools that users will need to support their apps they have created using your free tool. I think using this approach means that users won’t mind paying for a tool like Analytics after they have invested time in creating a product using the free platform you’ve created.

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Jun 18 2015
Bower or NPM

I’ve been trying to chose between Bower or NPM as the tool I’m using for installing libraries. After using both for a little while I’m going to use Bower.

The main reason for this is because Bower is more for ‘front-end’ work, while I see NPM as more of a Node library loader. For me as a front-end developer I use Bower to get all the libraries I need for a project, for example AngularJS, Bootstrap and Gulp.

I see NPM as more of a tool for creating and managing your Node projects. As my experience using Node/ExpressJS grows I’ll probably use NPM a lot more.

But for me both package managers are a fantastic, when I look back at when I started building websites and I had to find, download, unzip, copy over to my folder, update the links in my HTML, all to install jQuery. So now we as web developers are lucky to have tools like Bower and NPM.

 

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