left-pad VS featured

It's pretty easy to find that the example I gave isn't gamed... A cursory search on GitHub can find a couple examples like dotenv [1] and npm's cli [2] both use it via an older version of nodejs/readable-stream [3].

There's also the classic left-pad debacle - https://github.com/left-pad/left-pad/issues/4

[1] - https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/blob/master/package-lock....

when using some other modern libraries like tailwind, you have to update the Next.js version carefully or you may have some errors following the Next.js update. Nothing new in javascript world, if something is working it's not guaranteed it will last :) It is important to really read the Next.js release notes as the base configuration may change in between the releases.

It's OK, it's reddit, it happens. I will say however that unless you are deploying to a windows server on premise somewhere you are using open source. (And soon even that won't be true because eventually Windows is going to be based on Linux.) I'm not asking people to give up their weekends or anything, but IMO if you consume open source, you have an obligation to contribute back something. Even if it's just reporting a bug on some library that you use.

Funny story, on the day that they unpublished it, the package.json states the license to be "WTFPL", which allows NPM to Do What The Fuck You Want To

It had been optimized (and deprecated) since then. See https://github.com/left-pad/left-pad/blob/master/index.js

I recommend reading https://github.com/readme/featured/how-open-is-open-source to understand some of the maintainers perspective.