3 ms·

> npm install server How could the package name "server" be available all these years :D?

• XCSme 9y ago
  Asking the real questions! I wonder if deleted package names are made available again. It makes sense that they did, but it's also a security issue, if one package is removed an attacker could add a new package with the same name and with a malicious functionality.
  • alvis 9y ago
    In theory, no. Unless you have the magic power like what Laurie Voss have. Remember he saved the world by resurrecting left-pad[1]? [1] http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm
• alvis 9y ago
  Apparently the author registered the package name back in 2012. From `nam info server`, it shows that the initial development started on 9 Aug 2012, but stopped very soon on the same day. Then the author picked up the work again last year.
• franciscop 9y ago
  It was not available! But it was abandoned and without any content, so after talking with npm for this specific scenario they decided to give it to me. I wrote an article called "Getting a great npm name": https://medium.com/server-for-node-js/getting-a-great-npm-name-b0b2b27a0e1b https://medium.com/server-for-node-js/getting-a-great-npm-na...