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Check is-even and is-odd npm packages. https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

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That's still quite a ways away from 500M+ downloads a month, more like ~4M downloads a month.

Still a huge number of downloads, don't get me wrong!

You're right, I was reading the stats for "is-number" and mixing them up for "is-even":

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

170M downloads / week.

Same author, similar vintage. Arguably a necessary package, but that just further indicates how messed up javascript was.

So nuts.

> Arguably a necessary package

Arguably a somewhat important part of a standard library!

A large part of the problems of Javascript are corollaries of lacking of a good standard library, and the relatively long time it took and is still taking to fix that.

It wasn't really until ES2015 that a better standard library really started to take shape, and, thanks to IE11, it was a very long time before that didn't need poly-filling.

In a sane world, you'd just parse whatever you're after and then check for NaN or null.

You can't do that. Pop open your favourite javascript runtime and type:

    Number.parseInt("123Garbage")

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