When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024 - Socket
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An NPM user named PatrickJS launched a troll campaign with a package called "everything," which depends on all public npm packages.
  • @expr
    6•5 months ago

    It’s less of an issue of reviewing all packages than it is that this causes DOS in the first place. It’s pretty damn stupid that you can’t unpublish packages others depend on, and the whole recursive dependencies thing makes the situation a lot worse than it otherwise would be. Neither of these are issues with other package registries.