One developer broke Node and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript(theregister.co.uk)

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theregister.co.uk

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

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

2 comments

jbreckmckye7 anni fa

This article is over three years old.

fortran777 anni fa

Relevant again because Kik is going away.

brennanbl7 anni fa

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

tastroder7 anni fa

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.