Npm left-pad incident
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npm-left-pad-incident-203-12076873
title:
Npm left-pad incident
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On March 22, 2016, software engineer Azer Koçulu took down the left-pad package that he had published to npm. Koçulu deleted the package after a dispute with Kik Messenger, in which the company forcibly took control of the package name kik. As a result, thousands of software projects that used left-pad as a dependency, including the Babel transcompiler and the React web framework, were unable to be built or installed. This caused widespread disruption, as technology corporations small and large,
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2016 incident involving the npm platform
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident
date created:
2024-05-10T17:16:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T03:27:46Z
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