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speedgoose ◴[18 Nov 24 19:19 UTC] No.42175877[source]▶

I would heavily recommend to avoid NodeJS packages that depend on node-gyp. Node-gyp powered dependencies are very seldomly worth the hassle.

If you must depend on node-gyp, perhaps use dev containers so at least every developer in your team can work most of the time.

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1. trinix912 ◴[19 Nov 24 17:21 UTC] No.42185890[source]▶

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Pardon my ignorance, but wouldn’t that rule out most image processing packages that depend on (and often build during install) imagemagick as the backend? A long time ago I tried to avoid it in a project but really couldn’t find any decent node image processing package that wouldn’t at some point depend on it. Maybe I just didn’t look far enough?

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