npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/

[giscus[bot]]

npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/

Intro Okay developers, time to have a serious talk. As you are probably already aware, this week React, Babel, and a bunch of other high-profile packages on NPM broke. The reason they broke is rather astounding:
A simple NPM package called left-pad
that was a dependency of their code.
left-pad, at the time of writing this, has 11 stars on GitHub
. The entire package is 11 simple lines that implement a basic left-pad string function
. In case those links ever die, here is the entire code of the left-pad package:

https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/

[timbogdanov]

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