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		arminiusreturns 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugi... As a linux admin, I refuse to install npm or anything that requires it as a dep. It's been bad since the start. At least some people are starting to see it.

azangru 38 days ago [–]

> As a linux admin, I refuse to install npm or anything that requires it as a dep. It's been bad since the start.

As a front-end web developer, I need a node package manager; and npm comes bundled with node.

arminiusreturns 29 days ago | [–]

How in the world did we survive before node?

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