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Comment by dannynemer | Hacker News Reader

Lodash dropped bower support in favor of npm because "16% use bower vs. 76% npm for AMD packages": https://twitter.com/jdalton/status/677323442488672257

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Given that there were 14825158 downloads of lodash from npm last month, that implies that there were over 3M downloads from bower. That's a lot of people to throw under the bus.

For what was a single 19 line JSON file: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/commit/3b86574b4da0828f6afb...

According to bower stats over the last 7 days lodash was installed 23 times compared to 4 million npm downloads & 181 new npm packages depending on it.

http://bower.io/stats/

http://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=lodash

https://gist.github.com/anvaka/8e8fa57c7ee1350e3491/revision...

Sounds broken. My team alone would have installed it more times that that.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

After thinking about it a bit more, the only reasonable conclusion I can come to is the following:

It's the number of times users actually typed

    bower install lodash

i.e. adding it to a project that didn't already have it, as opposed to just running bower install on a package which uses lodash.

Would also explain why despite bower itself being installed 37000 times in the last 7 days, the most installed package is only listed as 100 or so times.

You'd even need multiple busses ;)

Why did you shorten one number but not the other? 14.8M via npm vs 3M via bower

One is exact, one is approximate

...according to a twitter poll on a personal account :P

I avoid bower wherever possible, but removing support does smell a bit like an activist move. There may be more to the story, though.

The poll was, should it be dropped, given that fact. The fact was not the poll result.

Plenty of people don't use AMD packages at all, wtf?

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