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you motherfucking cocksucking ass wipes.

How fucking hard is it for you JS cockheads to have STABLE fucking code?

So hear I am, thinking through a side project for data extraction and loading to automate some shitty part of my job, that could be used by the broader team... and decide to use electron.... I know it's a clusterfuck, but this wouldn't be a big application, so against my better judgement I run:

npm install electron
npm start
...
Error: unknown spawn

🤷‍♂️ you had 1 fucking job... 1 fucking lousy shit stain of a job, and you can't even have something run out of the god foresaken box without someone debugging your shit.

Now who has a WORKING alternative to electron?

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    That’s my favorite kind of JS developer.
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    Use the right tool for the right job. If you need to do anything with data, extraction, transformation, manipulation, splitting, merging... In an automated way, look at apache NiFi: https://nifi.apache.org
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    @NeatNerdPrime this isn't entirely automated and the data will need to be configurable depending on use case, which can be solved from a user friendly GUI.

    The idea is to have a NoSQL DB holding templated data per use case, manipulating that through a GUI if required, which could result in several related records being created at the other end which can be used to seed dev/test environments with usable data rather then spending time manually generating the data, just click a button and bam your ready to go.

    Plus this is more for me to do something on the side which can be reused later.
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    @NeatNerdPrime So, Electron is not the right tool if you need to start it? Checks out. I mean, that's where it already fails.
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    Glad i'm not the only one who often spends many very frustrating hours doing a "5 minute" NPM install!
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    As a JS developer, I understand you, and am sorry on his/her behalf. We don't deserve to be treated so well. JS allows us to scale up too quickly, and so we must be held to a higher standard.
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    Why do you have to use electron? Can't you just build a web app? Plenty of great stable stuff there!
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    Nah man blaming all JS Devs on electron is quite the stretch.
    I would say 50% of us will fight that shit for the exact reason you just mentioned. It's the point-to abomination you show someone who is on a "JSHigh", those people who think that everything can and should be coded in JS.

    And if I learned anything in my time as a JSDev is that to rarely use npm packages. Only exception are packages like express that are well maintained AND unopinionated.
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    flutter for desktop is coming along nicely
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