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left-pad

v1.3.0

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Left-pad a string with spaces or a custom character.

6

SPS

1554

Days since commit

12

Open issues

No sponsors
Low activity
Officially deprecated
Consider String.prototype.padStart
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90-day SPS survival curve

Commit velocityhigh

Last commit was 1554 days ago. Healthy packages average a commit every 12 days.

Maintainer activityhigh

Primary maintainer @primary-maintainer has not pushed to any public repo in 77 days.

Fundingmedium

No OpenCollective, GitHub Sponsors, or corporate backing detected.

Issue resolutionmedium

95% of issues older than 90 days have no response. Industry average is 23%.

Communityhigh

Fork-to-star ratio is 0.05 — above 0.25 indicates community has diverged from main project.

Securitymedium

OSSF Scorecard dropped 3.5 points in the last 90 days. Last CVE: 2380 days ago.

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Left-pad Maintainer

@left-pad-maintainer

Last commit
1554d ago
Public repos
14
Sponsor
None

AI Assessment

left-pad is a historical artifact with no meaningful maintenance. The functionality is native in modern JavaScript, so migration is mechanical rather than architectural. Risk is reputational and supply-chain hygiene rather than feature parity.

Prediction confidence97%

Suggested replacements

String.prototype.padStart100npm

Actively maintained alternative with strong community adoption.

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Migration effort

Lines impacted45
Files affected3
Suggested sprint0.5 weeks

Based on typical left-pad → String.prototype.padStart migrations in similar codebases. Actual effort depends on custom formatting logic.

Alert history for this package

  • May 9, 202630 → 6Tier changed to critical after SPS dropCritical