2 mo. ago • 97%

I meant to type "npm run dev"... What will happen now?

38 comments

Apparently it works retroactively and now you are on Windows.

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- Oh man, that would be a hell of an easter egg if it cleared your terminal and pretended to be a dos prompt
  
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"ruin dev" is redundant; that's the default behavior.

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Nothing, it's already ruined(!)

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- dev.ruin()!
  
  SyntaxError: Unexpected ! operator
  
  No, it's an order!
  
  Understood
  
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Npm ruined dev long before you tried this.

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Your code will be minified and your git history deleted

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believe it or not, jail.

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- We have the best deployment pipeline in the world, because of jail.
  
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You'll be forced to use only Windows forever.

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i think the dev is already ruined having to use npm

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- Security people will say so.
  
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It's an alias to start the upgrade to Windows 11... you thought you were being careful all those months dodging the Windows 11 upgrade button but you've done it now! Get ready for an objectively worse OS!

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- Considering "being ruined" is a state, and not a scale, the dev is already ruined, because it's not Linux.
  
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You forgot to run npm edge dev first

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- Did you get four hundred thousand viruses?
  
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  Computer over?
  Virus = very yes?
  
  That's not a good prize!
  
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- Hi Strong Bad
  
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- Source: Homestar Runner - Strong Bad Email #50 - 50 Emails
  https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/50-50-emails
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rrZ-sA4FQc
  
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deploys your code to your dev environment

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NPM ruin dev is a new advanced feature that endorses opinionated "extreme programming" techniques. First it gets to work rebuilding node_modules, but with all the least compatible module versions in order to accelerate testing. It also minifies your .js code in place, to save you some CPU cycles later. Lastly, it squashes your entire git history on all branches, to save space.

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- It also tries to do rm -rf / to save more space, but in this case it's a futile attempt
  
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You may have to switch to a proper operating system to redeem yourself.

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npm will ruin the dev now. It happened to me 11 months ago

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Hope you didn't have the repository URL in your package.json... otherwise it'll be gone now.

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The NPM gods will smite you for using CMD instead of PowerShell.

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NPM on Windows, it doesn't matter anymore.

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Yeah you’re gonna need a new dev environment. That one’s toast.

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Your .env with production credentials is now up on a public repo

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This needs to be a real command.

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Not sure CrowdStrike runs on npm, but still ruined it all for sure

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Same thing.

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MCP: Already there, Hun! END OF LINE.

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Its an alias, so no problem.

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You should press backspace. 😉

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npm ruin dev running shittier could be a nice prank... depending on how often it gets typed.

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Microsoft is way ahead of you

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