[HN Gopher] NPM is down due to Cloudflare Workers outage
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       NPM is down due to Cloudflare Workers outage
        
       npm installs are failing for many due to cloudflare outage. No
       report on npm side yet  UPDATE: npm status has been updated to
       reflect issues https://status.npmjs.org
        
       Author : theobr
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2023-10-30 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
       | tlhunter wrote:
       | npm
        
       | louison11 wrote:
       | Would be good for them to implement some kind of P2P fallback. As
       | in: if cloudflare is down, npm can go and query some kind of IPFS
       | version. After all, many of these packages are most likely
       | already hosted by thousands if not millions of other clients.
       | 
       | They would just need to run their own IPFS client, so every NPM
       | module is at least pinned by NPM. And then users who do an npm
       | install could have the option to be a part of the P2P pool, which
       | would essentially just spin a light IPFS client on their side to
       | pin the modules downloaded.
       | 
       | The hash table associating each npm module => IPFS link could
       | then be duplicated on other hosts (AWS, Google) and consulted as
       | fallback if Cloudflare is down.
       | 
       | Or even, this strategy could be used to reduce bandwidth costs
       | even in day-to-day operations.
        
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