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* Web developers are familiar with JavaScript, also [http://nodejs.org/ Node.js] is the most popular and acceptable for those who are familiar with client side JavaScript. It could attract more contributors to involve and improve Firefox OS. | * Web developers are familiar with JavaScript, also [http://nodejs.org/ Node.js] is the most popular and acceptable for those who are familiar with client side JavaScript. It could attract more contributors to involve and improve Firefox OS. | ||
* NPM is a well-known build-in package manager of node, such tool is commonly used for web developers for years. It will make your life easier that developers can install third-party libraries and prevent us to reinvent the wheel if there is no such library provided by XULRunner. | * NPM is a well-known build-in package manager of node, such tool is commonly used for web developers for years. It will make your life easier that developers can install third-party libraries and prevent us to reinvent the wheel if there is no such library provided by XULRunner. | ||
* It would be great if we build up a pure JS system. To re-implement Makefile | * It would be great if we build up a pure JS system. To re-implement Makefile into JS is a hard work without third-party library, NPM provides a bunch of packages that let us build our pure JS system more quickly, flexible and maintainable. | ||
= Plan = | = Plan = | ||