If you don't use it, part of the concat+minification step prunes dead code.
> To make my own privately held modules and install them properly, I have to run a npm server? This seems like an awful lot of work for something as basic as this. Ok, so now I can use the cloud for this, but come on, I should be able to do this just from within the filesystem, like e.g. git does it.
If you don't care about having your package published somewhere other than your local machine, you can use npm link[1], or `npm install <directory>`[2].
It is[0]. It's a dependency of browserify.
If you don't use it, part of the concat+minification step prunes dead code.
> To make my own privately held modules and install them properly, I have to run a npm server? This seems like an awful lot of work for something as basic as this. Ok, so now I can use the cloud for this, but come on, I should be able to do this just from within the filesystem, like e.g. git does it.
If you don't care about having your package published somewhere other than your local machine, you can use npm link[1], or `npm install <directory>`[2].
0. https://github.com/substack/http-browserify/
1. https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/link
2. https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/install