To understand how one developer's rage-quit from a JavaScript code registry could suddenly cause all sorts of things across the Internet to begin to fail, you need to understand the strange nature ...

The four-person team moved the 3.7 million lines of code that run Stripe Dashboard — the interface where users operate and configure their accounts — to the new type system.

Something similar happened in March 2016, when the author of the left-pad JavaScript library (another project amounting to 17 lines of code) decided to unpublish the library without warning ...