The reason your project, among hundreds of JavaScript Projects, was broken for hours because someone unpublished a piece of their work known as Left-pad.

It ended up with Koçulu deleting an 17-line npm package called 'left-pad', which thousands of Node.js programs rely on to function.

When a developer 'unpublished' his work from the NPM JavaScript package registry, it broke dependencies for many other projects -- and highlighted the fragility of the open source ecosystem ...