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by cxr 1483 days ago
> System Requirements

> Node.js 16.x or later

Plasmo's "users" will already be working under the constraint of developing for a target platform where NodeJS will not be available to them, but is nonetheless meant for running JS: Chrome. Why is NodeJS necessary?
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coldsauce 1483 days ago
Our tooling is written in Node.js. So developers must have Node installed on their machines to utilize our tooling.

When they use our CLI to watch the file system for changes for live-reload or to build their extension, etc., that's a Node.js program.

The build target is browser Javascript, though.

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cxr 1483 days ago
> Our tooling is written in Node.js.

Sure. My question is why.

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cuylerstuwe 1483 days ago
It’s a norm for frontend devs to build CLI tools in the language/evironments/ecosystems they’re most familiar with.
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cxr 1481 days ago
That's an interesting way to respond, given the context. NodeJS doesn't run on the frontend, so your argument here would be an even _stronger_ reason to favor using Chrome as your runtime...
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ghotli 1483 days ago
Surely you are trolling? That's a very, very common setup. Nothing complicated or out of the ordinary requiring specific tooling for the dev environment.

The output that runs in the browser at runtime has its own set of same constraints. Modern browser version, etc.

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cxr 1481 days ago
> Surely you are trolling?

First of all, don't do that. It's obnoxious. Secondly:

> That's a very, very common setup.

So? Falling back on the argument that, essentially, "lots of people do this" is about as worthy as attempting to counter by saying that the other person/what they are doing is weird[1]. (It's actually slightly more respectable, but that's only because of how unrespectable the call-them-a-weirdo path is.) You either have an argument for $THING that will hold up under scrutiny without appealing to how weird/anti-weird $THING is, or you don't.

Thirdly, you are not compelled to comment. (What makes your decision to join in even more mystifying is that you were not the person being addressed—at least their impulse to do so would have made sense, even if the argument was still a bad one.) If you don't actually have an answer, why bother commenting at all?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30721113

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httgp 1483 days ago
Why not?
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cxr 1481 days ago
You mean aside from everything I already said? ("But why male models?")
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