Intro Okay developers, time to have a serious talk. As you are probably already aware, this week React, Babel, and a bunch of other high-profile packages on NPM broke. The reason they broke is rather astounding:
A simple NPM package called left-pad that was a dependency of their code.
left-pad, at the time of writing this, has 11 stars on GitHub. The entire package is 11 simple lines that implement a basic left-pad string function.

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The post discusses the issue of developers relying on small packages for basic functions instead of writing the code themselves.

NPM & left-pad: Have We Forgotten How To Program?