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A comment on NPM packages with most dependencies.

Re:NPM packages with most dependencies by tw1010 on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:27AM (#16325530)
Are we going to go around dependency-shaming packages now?
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Re:NPM packages with most dependencies by andreyf on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:35AM (#16325622)
Where is the shame coming from?
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Re:NPM packages with most dependencies by nwsm on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @12:19PM (#16326121)
Probably this article:

https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and...

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Re:NPM packages with most dependencies by andrewmcwatters on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:36AM (#16325629)
If you, at first thought, believed this to be about shame, it says something about the JavaScript ecosystem.
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Re:NPM packages with most dependencies by SquareWheel on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:40AM (#16325693)
For what other reason would it be posted?
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Re:NPM packages with most dependencies by tw1010 on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:42AM (#16325713)
That's what I thought most people would think this would be about, based on the news cycle around this stuff (like leftpad). It's more a reflection on what the collective unconscious thinks about it, than an objective measure of the health of the ecosystem.
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