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The massive bug at the heart of npm (JS Party #282)

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The Importance of Data Validation

Saki: There's just so much undocumented behavior and undocumented APIs with the MPM registry, which unfortunately has been the case for quite a while. And we've as a community really had to leverage the clients themselves and folks that have you know, paved paths to to playing with the registry in some way. So I tip my hat to the team behind Verdachio. They did a lot of work to sort of backwards engineer and build a proxy registry implementation. A lot of these products also help you write policies and enforce policies on consumption of your upstream packages. Saki: All the things that in theory should be built into the NPM registry could do very profitable business if they were done

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