Dependency is replaced by one-liner, weekly traffic is reduced by 440GB

Aug 1, 2024 · 3:20 PM UTC

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My question is, how a lib with one simple typecheck had so many updates, that it ended up with version 7.0.0
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Looks like someone’s going to exceed expectations on the next performance review cycle
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can we pause for one moment to gaze in wonder at how one determines if something is a number in javascript? magnificent.
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THIS is proper software engineering 👏
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omg that’s insane. why is that even a package
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From a guy called "talentlessguy" lol
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That’s amazing. JS insanity.
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wtf there's a package for that at version 7, what were the breaking changes lol
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Very, very satisfying. Thank you.
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Node.js. The antithesis of green/ saving electricity. Imagine how much energy we would save without all the npm pull crap
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This is *literally* all that the module does
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This is the problem with nodejs, a lot of shitty dependencies.
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Fire the person who used it in the first place
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I’m just laughing at the GitHub username of the committer. 🤣
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How come? The code itself ~400 bytes, the rest is readme and license, which is not included in bundle
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that what happens when u confuse JS for a programming language
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My doubt is how come that one package (Including its own name dependencies) could cause this much impact?? Am I missing something?
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Is this how to correctly check for number in js? That's depressing
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Congrats on finding something so simple and powerful.
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Dependencies like that just shouldn’t exist. If it’s simple enough, write it yourself!
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Actually TBH I think the prevalence of these sorts of modules in JavaScript is largely due to the fact that nobody is fully confident they understand all of the weird typing edge cases they need to handle to perform a complicated task like determine whether something is a number
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The first time I heard is-number as a library you install I thought it was a joke.
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Why are they downloading packages 40 million times a week? Badly configured CI?
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Without more details this seems wholly inaccurate- what's leading to the high volume? Does the package contain test data with all natural numbers 😂
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Hats off to dev who wrote the package just to check the type and second hats off to dev who used it even 😂
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Not a JS developer. But why would you need a “is-number” dependency?
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this guy saved a lot of carbon dioxide
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If code was written by the sales department
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The estimation is biaised. It's based on the fact that every download on the lib results on one download of the incriminated lib which is not true : npm cache is machine wide
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But how is it that this change saved any traffic at all? The languages I use would compile down this two implementations to the same executable or interpretable code. What is JS doing here?
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I'm still not sure why they're using `v - v === 0` instead of `!Number.isNaN(v)`. That "clever" trick is going to confuse inexperienced devs!
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Now let’s rinse and repeat this across the entirety or GitHub and GitLab. Then tackle other similar “libraries”
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Gonna be hilarious when is-number 8.0.0 comes out with new features and you can’t take advantage of them.
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