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TIL About How 11 Lines of Code Supported Web Development and the Code Was Deleted It Broke the Internet (getpocket.com)

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

I always reel in horror when projects have tiny, 'negligible to implement yourself' functions like these as dependencies. See also: is-even 🙄

Edit: is-even has a dependency on is-odd which has a dependency on is-number. 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And the whole implementation of is-number which is at version 7.0.0:

module.exports = function(num) {
  if (typeof num === 'number') {
    return num - num === 0;
  }
  if (typeof num === 'string' && num.trim() !== '') {
    return Number.isFinite ? Number.isFinite(+num) : isFinite(+num);
  }
  return false;
};

The node.js ecosystem has always been madness.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Created by the organization "i-voted-for-trump"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol, I saw that. If you go to their main page, it's explained that it's a joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, Trump didn't even exist in 2014!

he never did

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hah, even!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think is-odd is intentionally a reference to / satire of leftpad

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It was created in 2014, 2 years before the leftpad incident, when a user was learning JavaScript. They now have over 350k downloads per week.

However, https://github.com/slmjkdbtl/is-is-odd/issues/4 is a wonderful work of satire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Used in is-ten. Genius

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At this point it’s just a joke. Is there a npm for console log? I’ll have to check.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

There's an npm for everything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't even...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Yes you can, just don't odd

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

JavaScript is a dangerous shitshow for this exact reason. Dependencies are a security and stability nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Eh, I'd say any language that offers a package repository is just as susceptible. I'm neither pro- nor anti- dependency, but I do always try to keep them to an absolute minimum regardless of what environment I'm working in. Sometimes it makes sense to not reinvent the wheel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is why I only code in Assembly. /jk

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Yes, but other languages have exponentially fewer packages that install when you add something, making the attack vector smaller and easier to monitor.

The best way to fix this is for library authors to avoid installing as many sub-dependencies as possible (is-odd, being an obvious example). But that’s a fundamental culture problem.