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

jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@programming.dev – 372 points –
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Apparently it works retroactively and now you are on Windows.

Oh man, that would be a hell of an easter egg if it cleared your terminal and pretended to be a dos prompt

Nothing, it's already ruined(!)

dev.ruin()!

SyntaxError: Unexpected ! operator

No, it's an order!

Understood

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!

Considering "being ruined" is a state, and not a scale, the dev is already ruined, because it's not Linux.

Did you get four hundred thousand viruses?

Computer over?
Virus = very yes?

That's not a good prize!

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.

It also tries to do rm -rf / to save more space, but in this case it's a futile attempt

You may have to switch to a proper operating system to redeem yourself.

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

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

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

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

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