Inside the Release of npm@5 and Sheetsee

Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton talk with Rebecca Turner and Kat Marchán about npm@5 and Jessica Lord about Sheetsee.

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Featuring:

• Rebecca Turner – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kat Marchán – Twitter, GitHub
• Jessica Lord – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
• Rachel White – Twitter, GitHub
• Alex Sexton – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

npm@5

• npm v5.0.0
• cacache - a Node.js library for managing local key and content address caches. It’s really fast.

Sheetsee

• Sheetsee - a client-side library for connecting Google Spreadsheets to a website and visualizing the information in tables and maps.
• Sheetsee on Glitch - a sample Sheetsee site with data backup

Picks!

• chaosbot/chaos - a social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically.
• babel/babili - ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain.
• zeit/pkg - package your Node.js project into an executabl
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!