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[fixes #121] chokidar -> sane #1283

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I think chokidar is great, but the ergonomics around native dependencies today in node really painful. Although chokidar pre-builds, users switching nodes, or with old yarn.lock files, or failed pre-build downloads, or behind firewall usages cause a fallback to requiring a working compiler toolchain. Requiring that, very much increases the barrier of entry, and support load for tooling/cli maintainers.

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stefanpenner commented Jun 6, 2018 •
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I'll try to land: amasad/sane#121 to make this slightly more compelling.

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...cause a fallback to requiring a working compiler toolchain. Requiring that, very much increases the barrier of entry, and support load for tooling/cli maintainers.

What does this mean practically? Can you provide a concrete example of how this might increase the barrier of entry?

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stefanpenner commented Jun 6, 2018 •
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What does this mean practically? Can you provide a concrete example of how this might increase the barrier of entry?

Totally fair, let me share my opinion.

prebuilt dependencies work only if:

  • access to AWS
  • prebuilt for your OS + Node ABI is available on AWS
  • you don't switch node versions.

If any of the above fall sideways, you end up requiring:

  • python / node-gyp + compiler toolchain (like gcc) working

This affects the following users:

  • unfamiliar with node, especially those on windows
  • with firewall rules (work rules) preventing aws cdn access
  • power-users which switch node versions often
  • people doing trainings, where their users have "issues with their environment". Pure JS deps by default, avoid a whole host of these issues.

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Thanks for the detailed response. I'm 👍 on this change given the above info.

Looks like all the --watch tests are currently failing in CI though. Once those are fixed I'm good to land this.

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Looks like all the --watch tests are currently failing in CI though. Once those are fixed I'm good to land this.

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[fixes qunitjs#121] chokidar -> sane
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I think chokidar is great, but the ergonomics around native dependencies today in node really painful. Although chokidar pre-builds, users switching nodes, or failed pre-build downloads, or behind firewall usages cause a fallback to requiring a working compiler toolchain. Requiring that, very much increases the barrier of entry, and support load for tooling/cli maintainers
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Sorry about the delay, just fixed the tests locally. Let's see what CI says...

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Looks good to me! Thanks 😄

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watcher.on( "ready", () => run.apply( null, args ) );
watcher.on( "change", watcherEvent( "changed", args ) );
watcher.on( "add", watcherEvent( "added", args ) );
watcher.on( "unlink", watcherEvent( "removed", args ) );
watcher.on( "delete", watcherEvent( "removed", args ) );
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On a personal note, I prefer this event name so much more than "unlink".

@trentmwillis trentmwillis merged commit 9af0448 into qunitjs:master Jul 30, 2018
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@trentmwillis is there a release planned soon, or will it be some time? (I am unfamiliar with the QUnit release cycles)

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We don't really have an official release cycle. It's pretty much after we've had some worthwhile changes and/or someone asks for it. I'll plan to do one this week.

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