Notice 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

Notice 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.