Node Interactive North America 2016

Front-end operations is the first line of defense between your customers and the bugs that impact them the most: user experience bugs. Yet front-end deployments almost always require deployments from their associated server-side services. Given the huge presence that npm in the workflow of front-end developers it is only natural then that these deployments be handled using an "npm publish" workflow.  In this talk we will discuss such a system, Warehouse, as well as the associated challenges in Node.js for automating builds of front-end packages:  - Automating "npm install" - Distributed systems & microservices - Proxying npm requests & the npm wire API - Unsung features of npm: "npm dist-tag"