Left pad and code dependencies
In 2016, the dev behind an NPM package called left-pad unpublished all of his NPM modules. Left pad was a 11 line module used in millions of projects including Babel, React and other high profile packages.
Links
- I’ve just liberated my modules - i’ve just liberated my modules
- NPM & left pad: Have We Forgotten How To Program? have we forgotten how to program/)
- How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript