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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

don't look at the weekly downloads if you are faint of heart.

[–] Decq@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To be fair in a dynamic typed language with dumb string to int coercions, I kinda get why such a library would exists. So it's more a symptom of terrible language design than modern dependency hell.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

If you really want to see some horror, follow the dependencies

[–] ThanksForAllTheFish@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://10xengineersqualityprogramming.github.io/ https://www.npmjs.com/package/@falsejs/falsejs This is hilarious, has 262 of the best useless dependencies. In all seriousness though how does anyone ever audit a npm package, it's dependency hell!