MAMacha·Mar 23, 2016
Committed five hours ago: https://github.com/lydell/line-numbers/commit/711f6ad0eb1771...
This mess appears to have convinced the author of that.
In NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?lydell
line-numbers
JavaScript2016–2016
lydell / line-numbers · Archived
line-numbers
[DEPRECATED] Add line numbers to a string.
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
16GitHub stars
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What it is
[DEPRECATED] Add line numbers to a string.
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
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Observed mentions: 2016-03-23 00:01:58 UTC to 2016-03-23 23:51:36 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 23, 00:00 | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 01:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 23, 01:00 | 2016-03-23 01:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 02:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 02:00 | 2016-03-23 02:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 03:00 | 2016-03-23 03:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 04:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 04:00 | 2016-03-23 04:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 05:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 05:00 | 2016-03-23 05:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 06:00 | 2016-03-23 06:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 07:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 07:00 | 2016-03-23 07:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 08:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 08:00 | 2016-03-23 08:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 09:00 | 2016-03-23 09:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 10:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 10:00 | 2016-03-23 10:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 11:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 11:00 | 2016-03-23 11:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 12:00 | 2016-03-23 12:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 13:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 13:00 | 2016-03-23 13:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 14:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 14:00 | 2016-03-23 14:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 15:00 | 2016-03-23 15:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 16:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 16:00 | 2016-03-23 16:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 17:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 17:00 | 2016-03-23 17:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 18:00 | 2016-03-23 18:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 19:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 19:00 | 2016-03-23 19:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 20:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 20:00 | 2016-03-23 20:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 21:00 | 2016-03-23 21:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 22:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 22:00 | 2016-03-23 22:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 23:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23, 23:00 | 2016-03-23 23:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI applaud this action and while I'd like to point the finger at NPM, there's no real other method to fix historical package versions that depend on this.
It is worth pointing to the silly state of NPM packages: Who decided that an external dependency was necessary for a module that is 17 lines of code?
module.exports = leftpad;
function leftpad (str, len, ch) {
str = String(str);
var i = -1;
if (!ch && ch !== 0) ch = ' ';
len = len - str.length;
while (++i < len) {
str = ch + str;
}
return str;
}
Developers: less dependencies is better, especially when they're so simple!
You know what's also awesome? The caret semver specifier[1]. You could install a new, broken version of a dependency doing that-- especially when other packages using peerDependencies rely on specific versions a
Read the rest
nd you've used a caret semver specifier.
[1] https://github.com/lydell/line-numbers/pull/3/files