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'everything' blocks devs from removing their own npm packages

Over the holidays, the npm package registry was flooded with more than 3,000 packages, including one called "everything," and others named a variation of the word. The package is quite aptly named as downloading "everything" will gradually pull in every single npm package that's ever been published to the npmjs.com registry onto your computer, potentially making it run out of storage. But, that's just the tip of the iceberg. If you're asking, "But who would install 'everything'?"—that ignores a ...

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