Is It Dead Yet?
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- latest 1.3.0
- licence WTFPL
- stars 1,305
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State history 1
| When | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-03 | first verdict: dead |
Supply-chain history 1
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pulled from the registry 2016-03
Unpublished by its author during a naming dispute, breaking builds across the ecosystem.
npm restored it and changed the unpublish rules because of it.
Source: npm post-mortem, March 2016. History, not a warning about today — the verdict above is about maintenance now.
Where to go instead 1
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String.prototype.padStart Drop-in replacement
Standard since ES2017 — this needs no dependency at all
`leftPad(s, n, c)` becomes `s.padStart(n, c)`.
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