🚨 Since Mar 14 ~2pm EST: CDN Unpkg Major Outage may affect your Bubble app

lindsay_knowcode · 2025-03-15T18:39:33.437Z

After the Lottie issue a few months back I created this Chrome extension to list out all the JS libraries that were being loaded in my Bubble apps. Then I could take that list and run it through ChatGPT to risk assess the use of JS libraries.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/js-library-lister/oindknlkenlfcanfhmgoifleiaomgnjf

and more details here
https://planbbackups.io/js_library_how_to_do_a_risk_assessment

Now I’d add into the prompts some words to assess the dependence of CDNs

Might help folks get a bigger picture view of plugin risk.

johnny · 2025-03-15T19:30:03.477Z

Good point, just replaced with Bubble’s CDN!

johnny · 2025-03-15T19:30:24.876Z

No problem

levon · 2025-03-15T19:35:03.256Z

damn, was checking from my phone didn’t pay attention to the date

levon · 2025-03-15T19:49:26.065Z

Found this thread on github, the member of unpkg increased the number of servers which he says should have helped - is unpkg.com down? · Issue #412 · unpkg/unpkg · GitHub

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levon · 2025-03-15T19:50:17.779Z

Meanwhile, discussing with my team to migrate all plugins from unpkg to jsdelivr - but due to this happening over weekend might take us a bit.

thethinklab.au · 2025-03-15T21:20:43.129Z

All my apps seem to be working now

fede.bubble · 2025-03-15T21:57:48.810Z

fede.bubble · 2025-03-15T21:58:29.662Z

Unpinning the topic, looks like the people behind unpkg got back to normal a few hours ago

senecadatabase · 2025-03-15T22:11:02.711Z

As you probably already know, there are a few reasons why that is not always advantageous…which is why there are CDNs.

johnny · 2025-03-15T23:10:19.252Z

It’s more reliable, cause if there’s an issue with the Bubble CDN they can actually fix that

They can’t fix Unpkg or Jsdelivr because it’s a third party dependency — the only advantage I saw was that with Unpkg or Jsdelivr you can get the latest version of the NPM library, but @Jici talked about what that might not be best above.

Btw for anyone who’s using a free plugin and wants to decouple from Unpkg or Jsdelivr you just need to fork the plugin, replace any urls of either CDN with an uploaded version on the shared tab of the plugin editor, then use that URL instead.

More specifically, you would open the Unpkg or Jsdelivr link, CMD + SHIFT + S to download it, then upload that file

votterskog · 2025-03-16T08:19:10.593Z

CleanShot 2025-03-16 at 08.18.45
Did it just go down again?

Edit: removed the two plugins and it’s working again. so it seems like it’s back.
Edit2: seems like it’s working again, maybe it was just for those 2 minutes.

senecadatabase · 2025-03-16T08:58:21.695Z

Could be ok as long as the file size is within bubble limits…or the files could be broken up and uploaded which is more added steps. Jsdelivr handles large files. And, also, manual updates would need to be done if there are updates. JsDelivr can automatically update. Could also make the file size of the plugin bigger…and a few more.

Jsdelivr though allows you to use fallbacks which solves the problem in my opinion.

All in all, it’s a personal choice I guess.

jonah.deleseleuc · 2025-03-16T12:51:54.691Z

You’re absolutely right.

I also believe then bubble should update / modernize the bubble plugin suite to avoid this problem in the future. Whether that’s allowing us to host files as big as we want them to be, or better yet integrate something like Webpack or Vite. That way, the libraries and packages can be used on the client side without relying on external sources.

While I’m on this topic. I know the bubble server side action editor is just a wrapper for lambda. However, the 5mb package limit is too limiting and we are not able to configure reading or writing of files. This hinders what we can make on the server side (by the way, this would resolve ALL PDF needs on bubble).

Anyways, have a great day

Jici · 2025-03-16T15:27:53.819Z

senecadatabase:

manual updates would need to be done if there are updates. JsDelivr can automatically update

This is exactly a reason to manage your own file sometimes. Yes jsdeliver can also fetch a specific version, but if you always use @latest, you could suddenly (and maybe when you are not available) got a broken plugin because a new library version is available that is not compatible with your code anymore.

senecadatabase:

file size

If you have a very very large script (but this is pretty rare that you will reach Bubble fixe size limit for a script), you could always use any provider like jsdeliver.

senecadatabase:

Could also make the file size of the plugin bigger

Totally false. This is a link. The file itself is not encoded. This is exactly the same thing that you set for jsdeliver, but the file use Bubble CDN storage.

senecadatabase:

All in all, it’s a personal choice I guess.

Absolutely… but based on correct assumptions

For me the only reason to use jsdeliver is if you want to use @latest version. As for the fallback… I consider that if Bubble CDN is down this is probably because the whole Bubble system is down too…

Jici · 2025-03-16T15:31:07.574Z

jonah.deleseleuc:

However, the 5mb package limit is too limiting and we are not able to configure reading or writing of files. This hinders what we can make on the server side (by the way, this would resolve ALL PDF needs on bubble).

Since Bubble choose WU, Bubble should unlock a lot of server side restrictions as the user pay for the server capacity used. However, for the actual WU pricing, it doesn’t make sense to use server intensive script on Bubble actually

senecadatabase · 2025-03-16T15:43:37.428Z

Jici:

Totally false. This is a link. The file itself is not encoded. This is exactly the same thing that you set for jsdeliver, but the file use Bubble CDN storage.

You are correct. I will give you that. I was in a hurry when I posted.

I had meant to say longer download times.

Even though it’s a link it still needs downloaded to the user’s browser.

I would rather depend on Jsdelivr to do that…as do many of the largest companies in the world.

The other points I mentioned I still completely believe.

cm1 · 2025-03-17T10:02:06.580Z

down again. anyone experiencing issues?

Bubbleboy · 2025-03-17T10:07:44.517Z

yep theyre down again is unpkg.com down? · Issue #412 · unpkg/unpkg · GitHub

Timbo · 2025-03-17T10:20:00.746Z

yeah. my pages load intermittent and if i’m designing/editing, there’s just issues galore. This is getting a little bit ridiculous now.