What Happened When I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory
Just absolute madness
6 min readAug 5, 2016
The left-pad fiasco shook the JavaScript community to its core when a rouge developer removed a popular module from npm, causing tens of projects to go dark.
While code bloat continues to slow down our websites, drain our batteries, and make “npm install” slow for a few seconds, many developers like…
