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If you check the bottom of the page, you'll see they've set up a production-ready CDN via MaxCDN: http://rawgit.com/#cdn


Yes, I recommend not using using any public cdn. That includes cdnjs, google hosted libraries, maxcdn. anything.

I think that you will inevitably end up needing to host code that uses the external dependencies, and you should host your libraries from the same 'place' that your code ends up on.

It's about data locality and reducing moving parts.


Also, using an external CDN will end to more downtime.

You'll never benefit from having your CDN up if your own servers are down.


Thinking about it now, if you could host your own code via the CDN (which this implies), that's perfectly fine with me.

It's late =P

I'm leaving my sibling comment untouched since my point still stands.




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