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The massive bug at the heart of npm

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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The Importance of Validating Metadata in GitHub

NPM is the world's largest package manager. It has 3 million plus packages on GitHub. Darcy Bunano: The path forward should be to ensure that maybe the TARBOLs package JSON is the canonical source of truth for that metadata and should be validated or extracted out of that TARBOL. But there's a bunch of discovery work that needs to happen, he says.

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