Wow, very interesting post for me. Earlier today, at work, we ran into an issue where `npm install` was failing because the `shuffle-array` module wasn’t found.

Wow, very interesting post for me. Earlier today, at work, we ran into an issue where `npm install` was failing because the `shuffle-array` module wasn’t found. Investigation showed that the cause was that it was unpublished today. We found that this was a required dependency of the `match` module and this was in our dependency list in`package.json`. We investigated and found out that it had been erroneously committed — it’s actually a memory game and has absolutely no place in our webservice project. :) (Mistakes happen… dependency audits can be worthwhile!) Now, some hours later, I found your post on HackerNews and was really shocked to see, hey, this is exactly why it was unpublished. Quite a chain of events. Never thought I’d figure out why the modules were unpublished, but now I get it! Thanks for the explanation. [crossposted from the medium article]