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thataccount 4 hours ago [-]
I am not sure exactly what this service is or why it is desirable. Pitch me in five seconds or less?
clarke78 3 hours ago [-]
5s: save time & money
10s: vlt helps engineering teams build JavaScript software faster, reduce supply chain risk, and lower infrastructure costs (via. API perf / payload optimizations).
20s: If you've used npm for years & are just narrowly escaping the various malware attacks or are on the hook for running up CI/agent bills at work because cold installs are X percent of the time compared to your actual builds/runtime, then you should check us out.
22s: Also, <insert jFrog grumble>.
wesleytodd 2 hours ago [-]
To add a bit of non-Vlt (I work on the JS Platform Team at Netflix where I have driven many of our decisions in the package manager space the past 6 years) but highly involved and supportive community member:
The team that was able to ship the most important features for npm to be competitive in the modern JS stack from ~2020 was able to take a fresh look at the problem without the organizational baggage of Github/Microsoft.
On the technical side, the ecosystem is maturing and we need a better set of foundational tools to meet that maturity level. This includes deep commitment to performance, security, and DX. The full product is more than just a package manager, it is a registry, a registry client, a task runner, and much more. Vlt is aiming to be this mature foundation.
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong on anything here Darcy.
P.S. grumble grumble...jFrog is a trash fire....grumble grumble
skrebbel 42 minutes ago [-]
Yeah but what is it?
baq 2 hours ago [-]
...can you make the 5s pitch be more like 'X times faster than pnpm and more secure' but fill X for me? unless it isn't pnpm at all in which case replace with 'it does X' because I've no idea after reading your post and a quick skim of the announcement itself?
clarke78 1 hours ago [-]
Perf is highly nuanced but we've been doing realistic benchmarking for the ecosystem for almost a year now: https://benchmarks.vlt.sh/
We've got more improvements coming soon but we're a roughly ~10-40% faster registry then npm out-of-the-box. Compared to incumbent enterprise registries we're like ~3x.
xixixao 54 minutes ago [-]
jFrog is horrendous, so can you also tackle Python please?
viviansolide 3 hours ago [-]
This will benefit the entire ecosystem.
Well done.
clarke78 1 hours ago [-]
Appreciate the kind words! We're excited to keep supporting this ecosystem.
nerdalytics 4 hours ago [-]
Over a year I joined the waitlist and almost forgot that I did. Today the registry is open to deliver on its promises—secure the supply chain.
clarke78 4 hours ago [-]
Founder here - thanks for the vote of confidence! We've got a lot more in store.
merb 4 hours ago [-]
Without identity federation via oidc it’s basically not really a replacement for verdaccio
clarke78 3 hours ago [-]
This is coming imminently but appreciate the feedback & will push to get this landed here quickly. That said, our client does support OIDC publishing if your registry does so hopefully you'll still find value there as it's a major step up from legacy npm clients.
10s: vlt helps engineering teams build JavaScript software faster, reduce supply chain risk, and lower infrastructure costs (via. API perf / payload optimizations).
20s: If you've used npm for years & are just narrowly escaping the various malware attacks or are on the hook for running up CI/agent bills at work because cold installs are X percent of the time compared to your actual builds/runtime, then you should check us out.
22s: Also, <insert jFrog grumble>.
The team that was able to ship the most important features for npm to be competitive in the modern JS stack from ~2020 was able to take a fresh look at the problem without the organizational baggage of Github/Microsoft.
On the technical side, the ecosystem is maturing and we need a better set of foundational tools to meet that maturity level. This includes deep commitment to performance, security, and DX. The full product is more than just a package manager, it is a registry, a registry client, a task runner, and much more. Vlt is aiming to be this mature foundation.
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong on anything here Darcy.
P.S. grumble grumble...jFrog is a trash fire....grumble grumble
We've got more improvements coming soon but we're a roughly ~10-40% faster registry then npm out-of-the-box. Compared to incumbent enterprise registries we're like ~3x.