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I think they were making a joke.

Obviously it was some degree of tongue-in-cheek, but I’m not really that amused, to be honest. It needs a leftpad reference or something.

I see I’ve struck a nerve of some kind so I’d just like to clarify that I am not sorry.

Anybody who thinks that's actually good (or even real) advice is going to write horrible code regardless, IMHO.

https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended/is-number

That's horrifying, I thought the whole isNumber thing was a joke.

Do these guys assemble their application as hundreds (or thousands) of NPM packages containing single functions and then import them together? Because now I actually believe they are capable of it.

You might enjoy this as well: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/

And this: https://dev.to/leoat12/the-nodemodules-problem-29dc

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