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by mattinsler 4534 days ago
I promise this isn't a trojan horse! Trojan is actually an npm module that allows you to compile down nodejs code so that you can package it all as a single downloadable.

Check out trojan here: https://github.com/mattinsler/trojan

This helps with managing download times for all the transpiling code that we use for things like coffeescript and less and ejs.

At the time I wrote this module I thought it'd be funny to name one of the files horse to continue the joke. Definitely time to change that filename. =-)

I'd be happy to walk you through how all the code works if you're interested.

1 comments

Matt, you have two problems here I think you need to fix:

1. Your "trojan horse" name for that packager - has two connotations for me, neither of them good. Why not just call it what it is.

2. Your product name. I really couldn't recommend your product to anyone doing serious work for my company or my clients. The whole "awesome" and "ninja" vocabulary thing is grating, is done to death, I am sick of hearing it. My advice is to pick a better name if you want to attract anything more than tyre kickers.

Pretty sure you put a lot of time an effort into this, don't blow it with stuff like this.