npm install everything, and the complete and utter chaos that follows

npm install everything, and the complete and utter chaos that follows

Here's an experiment which went really badly wrong: a team of mostly-students decided to see if it was possible to install every package from npm (all 2.5 million of them) on the same machine. As part of that experiment they created and published their own npm package that depended on every other package in the registry.

Unfortunately, in response to the leftpad incident a few years ago npm had …

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