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Comment by sebazzz | Hacker News Reader

Only to find a packages.json file without a packages-lock.json file checked in, to make it impossible to restore the node_modules directory.

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Don't worry npm and cockroaches will be the only things to survive a nuclear war

What’s the diff?

> Cockroaches

CockroachDB

And Java and Keith Richards. But only one of these four things will still be interesting.

Pretty sure the universe is running on some advanced version of Erlang. Erlang VM would survive until heat death of the universe, when it finally crashes the heartbeat program will kick in and we'll have a new big bang

Obligatory XKCD citing: https://xkcd.com/224/

The real problem is that NPM wouldn’t be around.

Better check in your node_modules directory the night before archive day so it’s included.

I don't think there would be enough storage capability to store that many node_module directories.

Assuming they are deduping based on content hash it shouldn’t be that big a deal. Worst case it’s the size of npm itself.

Well yeah, but at that point you should just be cloning NPM on 2/2/20 as well.

https://archiveprogram.github.com/#arctic-code-vault

> The snapshot will consist of the HEAD of the default branch of each repository, minus any binaries larger than 100KB in size. Each repository will be packaged as a single TAR file.

100KB is a very low limit, many repos will be useless

> The real problem is that NPM wouldn’t be around.

I wouldn't call that a problem.

I don't know if finding both JSON files but having to download leftPad would be any better...

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