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npm's design prioritized ecosystem growth over deterministic builds, leading to bloated dependencies and fragile installations. This forced JavaScript developers to adopt Docker as a production necessity rather than an optimization. Now, security vulnerabilities and architectural limitations reveal the hidden costs of those early tradeoffs.

A decade after Prettier's release, its creator reveals the technical battles, philosophical breakthroughs, and corporate maneuvers that transformed code formatting from a developer's burden into an automated pillar of modern JavaScript. Discover how an algorithm from a Haskell paper became the silent arbitrator for millions of lines of code.