cdnjs VS Magic-Grid

Public CDN’s were supposed to help page speed, but things have changed in 2019. Services like Google Fonts, Cloudflare’s cdnjs, jsDelivr and Google Hosted Libraries may not help make sites load faster anymore.

For a large part of the web, bundlers did not exist. To include scripts, most people just linked to the library on a CDN like CDNJS or Google Hosted Libraries. This would begin to change in 2009 when Node.js was released. Instead of using CDNs, Node.js came with its package manager, npm. npm was easy to use because every library was just one npm install away, and updating was effortless. Because of the ease of use, many people wanted to use npm on the web. However, this was impossible until Browserify came along.

Does your cdnjs.com solution apply in case the website isn't SCC online or when IT IS SCC online?

I don't know what a "project manager" is in this context, but you'll need to be able to edit the html file for all sorts of reasons. Repl.it is probably a better choice than working locally in the beginning. If you signup for a free account, you'll be able to fork my project and work from your own copy. Or just make a p5 template by going to cdnjs.com, searching for "p5" and copying the script tag into the head of your html file.

Many thanks to the fine folks over at cdnjs for hosting our library.

u/Smaktat right now the easiest way is to just use a CDN link from somewhere like https://cdnjs.com or https://www.jsdelivr.com and then insert it into the HTML area like:

If you don’t want to use npm in your project, then Microsoft has another tool for you called Library manager (LibMan). LibMan is a lightweight tool for downloading libraries and packages from the files system or content delivery networks (CDN). Currently the tool support CDNs such as CDNJS, jsDelivr, unpkg. Just like npm, this tool can also be used from the command line or from within Visual Studio.

I was curious if the offending commit is still there but I didn't see anything that looked like it: https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/commits/master?after=6901ec10...

That commit log should give you a better sense of what happened if you (like me) didn't understand how cdnjs works. Apparently robocdnjs will just pull arbitrary packages and unzip and commit them into the cdnjs repo which then gets served all over the internet. Crazy!

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