Copyright dispute goes sour, disaster follows for JS devs. For the past day, JavaScript developers have been scrambling left and right to fix an issue that was crashing builds and affecting thousands of projects, if not even more.
Yesterday’s issue that had JavaScript developers up in arms was related to a small npm module called left-pad. This tiny JavaScript library has only 17 lines of code, which are responsible for padding strings to their left with zeros or spaces. For an unknown reason, this module was unpublished yesterday, blocking automatic builds of thousands of projects and sending developers in fervorous debug sessions.
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