If you're coming from web development and used to using virtualenv, anaconda has...

undergrowth54 on Feb 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Practical Data Science in Python

If you're coming from web development and used to using virtualenv, anaconda has environment management too. Run $(conda install conda-env). You can still pip install things into conda environments too. you'll probably want to $(conda install binstar) and search for various packages with that don't come in stock anaconda. For example, you can $(conda install --javascript node)

undergrowth54 on Feb 6, 2015 [–]

That should be $(conda install --channel javascript nodejs).