npm install everything, and the complete and utter chaos that follows
boehs.org
how one little joke can get so, so out of hand

Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it

I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space

  • cwoodEnglish
    7·
    2 年前

    A really good lesson on offline backups of things like issue trackers, though.

    • froztbyteOPEnglish
      9·
      2 年前

      when I first did this for a project a couple of years ago, the github api endpoint for this sucked extremely bad. I no longer remember all the details but it was something like 3 different sets of things you had to get to make sure you had somewhat of a full picture. might be better these days. and even then it’s still only the first piece in the puzzle

      but yeah, by and large a rather extreme percentage of the modern industry is extremely dependent on a vary narrow scope of SPoFs, and may are clueless about how to even approach this. 2 decades of computer-renting, yay!