Ridiculous NPM (Node.js) Packages that I wish didn't exist

My favorite package is is-number (a dependency of is-odd). It has 17M+ downloads a week. God is good.

I am often using is-odd and is-even package

I am dying hihi

What's more - some of these packages seem to have multiple versions. That package is-ten-thousand with its 28 dependencies seems to exist for the sole purpose of wasting computing and storage resources and should be treated as malware and removed from the registry.

These are like nfts, except funny

And this is why I hate Node and Ruby….the package management is way too chaotic….I went back to Java.

i could'nt stop laugthing 🤣❤

you guys are just jealous because your projects don't get that many downloads

500th comment.

501st

i wish npm doesnt exist . FUCK YOU NPM IM TIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe 43 weekly downloads is the minimum with all the crawlers.

I think the if package could be useful if you like functions and things.

lot of these are jokes, and others may just be people learning about package maintenance with a simple package that is probably a bad idea. what can you expect, they are noobs!

The problem is that all npm modules are created equal. It shouldn't be that way. A committee should mark at least these modules as tainted, meaning "don't use in production". That tag should be visible on the website and in the command line when you install it.
Furthermore taintedness shoul be inherited: any module that uses a tainted module is itself automatically tainted.
Thar way module authors would shamed into removing ridiculous dependencies.
Maybe.

noob programmers: try creating even some complex shit just to not include someone else packages
pro programmers: this package does nothing, let's use that

i needed in NodeJS the Browser Javascript function "atob" and.. there is an npm package for it. With 16 Millions weekly downloads..... lol
module.exports = () => Buffer.from(str, 'base64').toString('binary');

Better use bower

...oh wait

JavaScript "developers" in a nutshell

Likes haven't quite surpassed ten thousand..

Someone make an NPM package called "all" that depends on all other NPM packages.

I hope you find more ridiculous packages so we get another video, this was hilarious.

Uh? What’s wrong with the second one?

owoifyx is actually decent for joke programs. owoifying your speech is silly and entertaining. checking if a package is the is-odd package is not

yet my actually useful package with 0 dependencies gets 6 downloads. lemme go make a package for people that cant do basic math then ill get a fuck ton of downloads

LOL VERY FUNNY

Can you make another list with packages that aren't obviously complete jokes?

Time to make is is is odd

THANK YOU SO MUCH, I NEEDED OWOFYX. I WROTE MY OWN OWOFYER BUT ITS GARBAGE, not I can finally follow my dreams, you helped me a lot

Jeez, how dumb are developers these days... how bad do you have to fail maths to need a package to check if a number is odd 🤦‍♂️

haha these are great. 6 contributors for true. Definitely using in my next project

xD

is-odd in one line

const isOdd = n => return ((typeof n === ‘number’) && (n % 2 !== 0)) ? true : false;

I have a package idea ...... add1.
From it, many other packages could be created, with it as a dependency.
Eg.
add2 (depends on add1)
add3 (depends on add1 and add2)
Etc.......
You could create a wrapper function..... addAnother1.

What a great way to help society.

I posted a package to reserve a name and all it did was return bean and it had 102 weekly downloads in 2 days

Please let there be a part 2 !!

pretty sure these are memes

Some of these are jokes, most are actually useful building blocks especially from a functional style perspective. Take a moment and consider why lodash includes all of these basic functions.

the if package acutally makes sense since it's a expression now.

the worst part is that is even has so many downloads that i'm deadass sure people think it's not a meme

Penis.js is great, by the way

I wrote cnsol3 and I’m not sorry I contributed to the chaos.

this video is a freaking gold mine

I think you need to research what satire is

is-odd actually gets me worried about the state of web devs, lots of serious packages depend on it, which is really sad

Honestly, I get why the "if" package. It's using syntax from BASIC, so to people who prefer it, they can use it. Oh, and OwOify actually has good potential if it's done well.

I need to make a package that does that SpongeBob chicken meme for text like "jAvAscRIpt iS a GooD LaNGUaGe "