One developer broke Node and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript

Posted by fortran77 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:46AM
from the theregister.co.uk dept.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/

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Re:One developer broke Node and thousands of projects in 11 ... by jbreckmckye on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:51AM (#21059523)

This article is over three years old.

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Re:One developer broke Node and thousands of projects in 11 ... by fortran77 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @02:06PM (#21062975)

Relevant again because Kik is going away.

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Re:One developer broke Node and thousands of projects in 11 ... by brennanbl on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:48AM (#21059501)

Seems like a recurrent issue nowadays I wonder when npm will find a fix for it

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Re:One developer broke Node and thousands of projects in 11 ... by tastroder on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @10:05AM (#21060295)

As the sibling comment indicates, this is just an article from 2016 that deals with the original Kik/leftpad issue. NPM has since put policies in place to deal with unpublishing modules from the registry.

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