I will pay you cash to delete your npm module

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A satirical piece proposing to pay npm module authors to delete their packages without notice, mimicking the left-pad incident. The real message: npm's culture of micro-dependencies creates massive, unaudited dependency trees that pose serious security and reliability risks. The author argues that adding dependencies should be a deliberate, audited decision, and that most Node developers have no idea what's lurking in their thousands of transitive dependencies.

4m read timeFrom drewdevault.com
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