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Grieving | 4 years ago

2̶7̶ 2 dependencies, travis ci configured, fully tested and documented, even the readme depends on some external tool. github username is i-voted-for-trump. Looks like a joke that people actually started using.

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rnestler|4 years ago

In the GitHub organization i-voted-for-trump it even states:

> This is a joke. You'll only see this org if you are attempting to troll me about repositories I created when I was learning to program

omnicognate|4 years ago

27 dependents, i.e. things depending on it. Only one dependency: is-odd, hilariously.

I'd like to think it's a joke, but maybe not. Anyway, what's with the massive download spike, 20 million downloads between 22nd and 28th December 2020.

toomanybeersies|4 years ago

It actually has 2 dependencies, `is-odd` depends on `is-number`

rezonant|4 years ago

I assume they got it into a popular package around then, and it was promptly removed for being ridiculous.

dgrin91|4 years ago

In the about for the project it says

> I created this in 2014, when I was learning how to program.

uxp|4 years ago

It would be one thing if it was _just_ a little demo utility used to showcase packaging and distribution of a trivial use case, however the creator of this has also created a number of packages which pull in these "demo" packages, like `handlebar-helpers`, which is again just these trivial function packages wrapped in handlebar decorators.

Several of these utility and helper packages are then pulled into other packages and build tools and marketed as legitimate packages, effectively hiding and masking the "just a demo" labels of the root is-even, is-odd, is-number packages. When people like myself complain about the absurdity of NPM supply chain verification, this is what we're arguing against.

pledg|4 years ago

27 dependants, not dependencies. It has one dependency.