Discussion on: 10 useless NPM Package with millions of downloads

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funny, know what's even funnier? check out the code for is-even:

'use strict';

var isOdd = require('is-odd');

module.exports = function isEven(i) {
  return !isOdd(i);
};

It's fricking is-odd, negated... And then is-odd depends on is-number, crazy stuff

Jyotishman Saikia • Aug 23 '21

haha Keff ! funniest part is that is has millions of downloads

jeck labasan • Aug 23 '21

lol hahahaha

Raí B. Toffoletto • Aug 23 '21

WTF......

Ishan Tiwari • Aug 23 '21

Who on earth has downloaded it?

Jyotishman Saikia • Aug 23 '21

haha! Even i am finding those folks

jzombie • Aug 23 '21

The people who use these packages: npmjs.com/browse/depended/is-even

weirdguppy1 • Aug 23 '21

Lmao 😂

Jyotishman Saikia • Aug 23 '21

haha! 🤣 . my reaction was same when i discovered it.

LuisPa • Aug 24 '21

And if you think about this for a second, it looks like is using another package to inflate the numbers of the downloads for both packages.

I've seen this in a lot of packages, all the time comes from the same publisher.

Amohammadi2 • Aug 23 '21

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Garik Suess • Aug 23 '21 • Edited

It gets even better: there is a package named "is-uneven", which, you guessed it, depends on is-even and negates. You couldn't make this stuff up.

npmjs.com/package/is-uneven

leob • Aug 24 '21

I like it that the author says "Help with this big and important project is very appreciated", at least he's got humor and he's probably also aware that the whole thing is just a joke!

Siddharth • Aug 24 '21

I guess you still can make is-unodd, which doesn't exist

Vukky • Aug 25 '21

Are you sure?

Siddharth • Aug 25 '21

is-unodd negates is-uneven negates is-even negates is-odd which returns !!(~~i & 1)

Keff • Aug 23 '21

Incredible, imagine what would happen if suddenly they remove is-even package... like what happened with this other package of which I don't remember the name of... which broke quite a lot of stuff...