Someone broke the Internet! Or why you may want to mirror your dependencies…
Read OriginalThe article analyzes the 2016 'left-pad' incident, where a trivial NPM package's removal broke many JavaScript builds. It argues against over-reliance on micro-dependencies, warns that similar issues could affect other package managers like NuGet or Maven, and advocates for policies preventing package deletion on public repositories and for developers to mirror critical dependencies.
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