R.I.P.
npm install broke the build
–
“Killed by a package it never imported.”
Death certificate
- Status
- 🪦 Buried
- Cause of death
- Dependency hellBroken by a package that a package it used depended on.
- Severity
- Critical
- Hours to kill
- 4 hours
- Killed by
- Jashanpreet
- Language
- JavaScript
- Born
- 10 Mar 2025
- Fix merged
- 11 Mar 2025
- Buried
- 20 Mar 2025
- Component
- build
- Symptoms
- A fresh npm install pulled a new version of a dependency of a dependency, and the build failed.
- The fix
- Committed the lockfile and pinned the dependency.
Timeline
Every life of this bug, oldest first.
Born as “npm install broke the build”10 Mar 2025
Fix merged11 Mar 2025
Buried20 Mar 2025