change deps install folder name to a less generic name ?

[wryk]

components is a good name but component is a really too generic name. what about prefix/change it ?

npm doesn't use modules but node_modules (as exemple)

[dominicbarnes]

Yeah, I feel the same way since I've always wanted to use components to hold my own local components, (ones that don't belong in separate repos) but I have to come up with other weird names instead.

[jonathanong]

if we add the "source" i.e. github.com to each component, we could probably just store it globally somewhere instead. no more components/ folder, and installs would only happen in the background.

[dominicbarnes]

I don't think we need to change to something like that necessarilly, even just renaming to use component_dependencies or something less generic would be more than enough for me.

[cristiandouce]

component_components :trollface:

[tj]

I wish node didn't use node_modules haha, it's super ugly, but irrelevant either way really, we can change it down the road if we need to but there's no reason to

[ianstormtaylor]

+1 to disliking node_modules

i think just letting people supply a components dir would be fine (and easy) later on

[jonathanong]

yeah just wanna do it with a .componentrc file or something. setting --out in every command would be super annoying.

[ianstormtaylor]

it should be first in the the JS api, then in --out then in .componentrc. but i dont think any build-level settings should ever be settable only in .componentrc (only user level settings)