> this simple build process required 15,000 files in my node_modules subdirectory You would think people learned a lesson about packaging every tiny item as a

> this simple build process required 15,000 files in my node_modules subdirectory You would think people learned a lesson about packaging every tiny item as a dependency with left pad, but apparently yesterday it was downloaded 16104 times. [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/left-pad https://www.npmjs.com/package/left-pad