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Ask HN: Is NPM Having an Outage?

33 points by paradite ↗ HN
I can't install any module. They are all 404.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react

Update: I know there is a maintenance, but it is not supposed to impact installations:

  While some features will remain operational, like installations and search, minor inefficiencies may occur.
Update 2: It is back for me.

29 comments

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alirezamirian
Yes. any package I check is a 404 at the moment. Seems related to the scheduled maintenance mentioned here: https://status.npmjs.org/
paradite
Seems like 404 is unexpected behaviour, according to the maintenance notes:

> While some features will remain operational, like installations and search, minor inefficiencies may occur.

alongbottom
The sunday on call devs at NPM are probably scrambling
parzival2002
so what's next?
binarymax
I've switched to hand coding all my dependencies from scratch for today.
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FractalHQ
JSR is better so use that. And you can install npm deps from esm.sh instead.
tylerchilds
i use esm.sh and that’s how i noticed the outage.

cached packages resolved during the outage, but unpinned versions 404’d

my hot fix this morning was to pin my npm packages to cached versions on esm.sh

for deno packages, i tried to pin using the npm:* syntax, but those failed to resolve, so my hotfix was the same as above.

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bagofdumb
Having the same issue over here in Germany.
vycos-zen
just ran into the third pretty common package that i can't update due to a 404, stuff that is pretty well maintained
adhamsalama
Same. Turns out there's a planned maintenance, don't know if they intended to break installations though.
zinovev
I have installed a package, it works
alexswensen
I'm having the same issue, although it seems to be intermittent/recovering. Some packages I saw 404s on seem to be coming back.
shlomo_z
Not surprising considering the JavaScript ecosystem....

... I am just joking. Please don't downvote me for it.

BWStearns
Thanks for posting. I was confused as hell why I couldn't install Axios and I was getting a 404 earlier.