Zero-day Memes

Picture this: It's Christmas Eve, you're cozy by the fireplace, and suddenly you remember you need to install that one npm package for tomorrow's deployment. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. EVERYTHING could go wrong. Because that innocent little package you're installing has decided to bring its entire extended family reunion of dependencies—we're talking hundreds, maybe THOUSANDS of packages flooding into your node_modules like they're storming the Bastille. Your terminal is scrolling faster than a slot machine, and you're just sitting there watching package after package install, each one a potential security vulnerability waiting to ruin your holiday. Meanwhile, Santa's up there on Christmas night, probably also running npm install to manage his naughty/nice list database, experiencing the exact same existential dread. Two forces of nature, united in their shared trauma of dependency hell. The perfect Christmas alliance nobody asked for but everyone in JavaScript land deserves. Fun fact: The average npm package has about 80 dependencies. Merry Christmas, your simple "hello world" app now depends on more code than the Space Shuttle.