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I get your point about bloated NPM libraries but I think it's also ironic that NPM is the only registry with some of the _smallest_ packages which are equally a

by cyral 5y ago

I get your point about bloated NPM libraries but I think it's also ironic that NPM is the only registry with some of the _smallest_ packages which are equally as annoying. left-pad, ansi-yellow, ansi-red (yes, packages for a single console color with over 200k monthly downloads), is-odd, is-even (which of course, depends on is-odd and inverts it), etc.

haggy102 5y ago
Don't forget about "is-thirteen" and its inverse lol https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-thirteen https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-thirteen https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-not-thirteen https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-not-thirteen
esprehn 5y ago
To be fair a lot of those super tiny packages like the ones you listed were created by the same person. They have over 800 repositories on GitHub and hundreds of (probably too) small published npm packages. There's been discussion of that person and their possible motivations on HN before.