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Can you link me to the incident where a person deleted their packages and broke Babel? I'd love to read about it. Edit: grammar
by applecrazy 9y ago
Can you link me to the incident where a person deleted their packages and broke Babel? I'd love to read about it.
Edit: grammar
- tc7 9y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11300840/how-an-irate-developer-briefly-broke-javascript https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11300840/how-an-irate-dev...
- applecrazy 9y agoThanks.
- mort96 9y agohttps://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ left-pad was a package to, you guessed it, pad a string with n leading characters. Personally, I've always just written my own 2 line function for it (something like `function pad(s, n, ch) { return new Array(n - s.length).fill(ch).join("") + s; }`), but a bunch of packages either directly or indirectly depended on this left-pad package, so they all broke.
- applecrazy 9y agoPackages broke because of a literal two line function? That's hilarious and terrifying at the same time.
- mort96 9y agoWell... No. the left-pad function is 11 lines. The source code, as it was back then, according to that register article, was like this: function leftpad (str, len, ch) { str = String(str); var i = -1; if (!ch && ch !== 0) ch = ' '; len = len - str.length; while (++i < len) { str = ch + str; } return str; } But yes, packages broke because of what _could_ have been implemented in one line (ignoring the two lines for the function signature and closing curly).