> It is not expected that updating npm will kill the complete system it is on... I don't disagree with you at all on that. The reality is, however, that someti

> It is not expected that updating npm will kill the complete system it is on... I don't disagree with you at all on that. The reality is, however, that sometimes "shit happens". I'm more of a sysadmin than a developer and I learned many, many years ago that even the smallest little updates can "go wrong" and take the rest of the system with it. After getting burned a few times, even a baby will learn to stop touching a hot stove. > Should I have done this on a staging server? Sure, but that does not change the fact that I would have had to rebuild the whole server there too. Yes, but in that case your production servers would still be humming along just fine, no?