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Have to put a little clarity over my "so sad yet so true".

When the developers of such a serious library as React start to depend on a third-party one-function module made by some Dick-from-a-mountain (a russian idiom that means a random person who did nothing significant but tries to show out in all possible means), that means React developers are even more to blame than that Dick-from-a-mountain himself.

If you make any really popular piece of software, you absolutely must have a failover plan. No excuses for not having it.

But what's even sadder is that this issue had spawned a new wave of pseudo-elitist attacks on the entire JS dev community. Calm down guys, things like that could have happened for any language that has a widely-used centralized package system (Perl's CPAN, Python's pip, Ruby's gems etc).

Let me repeat that again: languages don't make software bad, people do. Just don't let such Dicks-from-a-mountain rule over your own modules with elementary stuff like leftpad, and you'll be safe.