It was a dependency of webpack that was broken (you can pick your bride, but you can't pick your bride's family). And the package owner, in a Github Issue said "not my problem, this package should never be used with webpack and should only be used with Browserify." Looking at the date, that Issue discussion occurred in 2015. Which makes sense. But a WONTFIX on a package that obviously is broken (I looked at the code), and is still an issue in 2018 is clearly a problem. The node world is a circular firing squad where no one wants to take responsibility for fixing their shit because each person thinks they are doing the right thing. When, thanks to the mess of npm, no one really knows who the "user" of their package is and you can't just dictate that so-and-so shouldn't be using your package that way. Because someone will use your package that way.
WONTFIX, issues just suddenly "closed" without reason (why, dammit??), or pull request queues 100+ long and obviously unmaintained are way too common for me. I've lost track of the number of times this has occurred.
It was a dependency of webpack that was broken (you can pick your bride, but you can't pick your bride's family). And the package owner, in a Github Issue said "not my problem, this package should never be used with webpack and should only be used with Browserify." Looking at the date, that Issue discussion occurred in 2015. Which makes sense. But a WONTFIX on a package that obviously is broken (I looked at the code), and is still an issue in 2018 is clearly a problem. The node world is a circular firing squad where no one wants to take responsibility for fixing their shit because each person thinks they are doing the right thing. When, thanks to the mess of npm, no one really knows who the "user" of their package is and you can't just dictate that so-and-so shouldn't be using your package that way. Because someone will use your package that way.
WONTFIX, issues just suddenly "closed" without reason (why, dammit??), or pull request queues 100+ long and obviously unmaintained are way too common for me. I've lost track of the number of times this has occurred.