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It's more a statement about the community than him imo. Or maybe about what npm allows to be published. Nobody forced you to use is-odd, yet it's downloaded 200
by posix86 3y ago
It's more a statement about the community than him imo. Or maybe about what npm allows to be published. Nobody forced you to use is-odd, yet it's downloaded 200k a week, why? Because js' developer community doesn't know any better
- geodel 3y agoExactly right. Its clever way of deflecting blame that whole community should share by piling on this particular person.
- ycombobreaker 3y agoThis really sounds like victim-blaming. The community is vulnerable to somebody publishing asinine modules, which should be addressed. However, this individual is still the perpetrator.
- kardos 3y agoA lot or these downloads may be CI systems running automatic tests.
- darkwater 3y agoThey clearly are, but this still means a not negligible amount of softwares have those packages in their dependencies.
- sam_bristow 3y agoMaybe someone needs to do a website in the same spirit of https://youmightnotneedjquery.com https://youmightnotneedjquery.com except youmightnotneedjonschlinkert.
- whstl 3y agoNotice that most dependents of his tools are: 1) his own project, 2) abandoned beginner projects. As some people mentioned, most of the usage of is-even is by tools made by this person. But the other part is that, he made quite a few development tools for beginners that scaffold new projects and pull lots of his packages as dependencies (especially the handlebars helper), which heavily inflates the number of "Dependents" in NPM. The other issue is that, in the past, he managed to include some of his less-useless packages in some semi-popular tools.