He Deleted 11 Lines of Code. Thousands of Projects Broke.

In March 2016, one developer deleted 11 lines of code, and thousands of JavaScript projects suddenly stopped building. This is the true story of left-pad, the tiny npm package that showed how much of the web runs on code nobody looks at.

What you'll learn: what npm packages and dependencies are, why one 11-line package could break Babel, Webpack and React projects, how npm fixed it, and three habits that keep your own website safe.

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