Ask HN: CDN or npm?
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CDN. There's a higher likelihood that a user of your site would have it cached, considering how popular Bootstrap is, and if it doesn't bother you that you're serving traffic through and directing users to a third-party.
Consider using Subresource Integrity [1][2] to pin a particular checksum to the particular version served from the CDN, for some extra assurance that the CDN is delivering correct file. This, of course, only works if you link to a static file that's unlikely to change, and not, say, 'bootstrap-latest.css'.
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/REC-SRI-20160623/
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/REC-SRI-20160623/#use-casesexampl...
Consider using Subresource Integrity [1][2] to pin a particular checksum to the particular version served from the CDN, for some extra assurance that the CDN is delivering correct file. This, of course, only works if you link to a static file that's unlikely to change, and not, say, 'bootstrap-latest.css'.
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/REC-SRI-20160623/
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/REC-SRI-20160623/#use-casesexampl...
It doesn't make any difference to me whether to use a cdn or npm.
Which should I use in your opinion?