IsOdd And IsEven Are Real NPM Packages?!?

There are some bizarre NPM packages and one set of those are IsOdd and IsEven but not only these packages also the 1,400 other packages by this same developer, why do they exist? Well stick around to find out.

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[GameCyborgCh]

he should release an NPM package which determines whether an NPM package is from him or not

[act..]

Don't be shocked at John's work. Be shocked that it is so needed.

[frny_]

this explains why modern webpages can barelly fit in a 700mb CDrom, all to present 3 images, one slider and 500 trackers

[pn-pompf]

The story about him learning programming for is-odd is cute, but its hard to believe he made 30 packages for ansi-colors for "learning"

[theoneand]

I really cannot blame the left-pad developer to be honest.

[PwnySlaystation]

Web development as an industry is broken maybe beyond repair.

[someguy]

i love how brodie goes full Aussie when he's annoyed lol

[da_nn]

why did JS failed to drown it self?
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because it only knows how to float!

[adambright]

import one from 'one';
import two from 'two';
import plus from 'plus';
import consoleLog from 'console-log';
consoleLog(plus(one, two));

[ukaszzajac]

theres also a rust library called isnt-even-nor-odd (i contributed to it by copying the tests from another package)

[snap_oversteer]

He should silently update is-even to also just be a negation of is-odd.

[tato-chip]

NPM is the reason why i don't trust programming language package management.

[adambright]

To be honest, it's not his fault or NPMs fault. It's JS fault. If it wasn't for type coercion, unsafe numbers and undefined, null, prototype, Object and Array implementation, lacking std, etc; people would've just move on. I don't see that kind of problem in Python, Go, Java, C or whatever, because these languages either have all you need implemented already, or it's easier and more reasonable to do it yourself. When I write go, I write go. If I need something and it's not in std, I write my own or copy-paste it from SO. The only packages I have are huge things like zap, pgx, disgord; or something like custom errors wrapper and UUID. The go.mod file lists all the packages that are used (even indirectly) and it's usually under 20, may be 50-ish for bigger projects, but that's it. If I open up my JS app be it svelte/vue or whatever, I'll see hundreds of them... Because JavraSkip

[TheHighpotinuse]

When I first started programming, I remember reading a post about the importance of making your own libraries; specifically a string manipulation library. It's easy for beginners to help them learn how to write functions, properly name functions, and include external files in their programs. It's mind blowing that people shipped software with a left pad function that they didn't write. Hell, even copying and pasting the code takes the same amount of time as pasting the link to the code

[xA]

Yes, the NPM repository is littered with libraries which still rely on other libraries which are no longer necessary if the downstream libraries were updated to match current NodeJS and JavaScript.

[pigbrine]

Finally, modularity, I can choose exactly which ansi functions I need

[MoraFermi]

I think that it says much more about the language than the person that things like is-odd are so insanely popular.

[GSBarlev]

Wow, that certainly is-odd... Hopefully nothing critical is actually using these packages—seems like a great way for someone to _get even_

[danidotexe_]

i love how the author used ≡ for = because it's still treated as an equals sign but it's a UTF-8 character which is a couple bytes longer

[rightwingsafetysquad]

I love your white board. It's always sitting there nonchalantly in the background like a newspaper headline in the Simpsons.