The article says that you can still unpublish packages from NPM at will. If that's still the case, then yes, leftpad should still be brought up in 2018 before someone unpublishes the "is-string-empty" package or whatever the dumb packages that people put on NPM are.
you can only within 24 hours of publishing. After that you need to send them an email to request it and they determine if it can be unpublished or not.
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It's 2018 and still leftpad issue, really?
The article says that you can still unpublish packages from NPM at will. If that's still the case, then yes, leftpad should still be brought up in 2018 before someone unpublishes the "is-string-empty" package or whatever the dumb packages that people put on NPM are.
you can only within 24 hours of publishing. After that you need to send them an email to request it and they determine if it can be unpublished or not.
Not true https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj
"We have restored all the package-versions for the 9 packages that were published over"
Full context here https://github.com/npm/registry/issues/255