docs/Node: mention homebrew-npm-noob #2895
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I found myself writing quite a few node-based formulae recently, so I wrote a formula generator for npm packages, homebrew-npm-noob (which, as the name hints, is inspired by Tim's homebrew-pypi-poet; hats off). To try it, just
or
(Python 3.3+ required.) It generates formulae like
or
It would be nice to "advertise" it in brew's docs so that other developers won't need to manually figure out tarball URLs on the npm registry (not trivial) and write boilerplate code.