npm frustrates me to no end, so my knee jerk reaction to this is "No!"
Interesting idea though. However it's not an OS, it's using NPM as the OS's package manager.
Interesting idea though. However it's not an OS, it's using NPM as the OS's package manager.
Take a look at the beginners guide to get a feel: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_guide
It'd make sense to ask for such clarification if the information truly wasn't available elsewhere, and accessible with a quick search. But that's obviously not the case.
It's pointless to rehash this obvious stuff over and over and over and over again.
This one seems like a fairly reasonable candidate: http://www.jongleberry.com/why-i-hate-npm.html (though the "nested dependencies" bit needs much more swearing, and I disagree with the last paragraph suggesting things in Ruby and Python land are just as bad).
Honestly curious here.
While I don't hate npm, there are better examples of how to do package management. For example, Nuget gets a lot of things right with no nested dependencies.
I do not feel this is the proper place to go into why NPM frustrates me so much, but on a high level, I'll tell you that it has much to do with nested dependencies & lack of support for seeing more than 1 version number on their website. Bower is even worse on the latter. Look at @bshimmin's link, http://www.jongleberry.com/why-i-hate-npm.html, I share a lot of the same concerns.