Making "safe npm"
JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development
How to Deal With MPM's Uninstall Fights
NPM was never really built to be extended. Even with these plugin systems on other package managers, we're having to go and change the hooks. So it's hard to know what hooks you actually need until you write an actual thing to use them. And a lot of the times people are using the hooks for things and they aren't respecting what users have already installed on disk. That's a big thing. We've been talking to a couple of package managers about this. They were surprised that we want to know what's already on disk. This affects your version of MPM because it can't simply say you're uninstalling. You should not ever install anything because that's actually
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