[heckanoobs]

I have more nuanced takes on lodash too but I'm putting them in another reply to separate them from the big picture stuff I already mentioned.

Lodash also differs from the standard lib's implementation, notably it's too permissive. Take this example:

const uhoh = null

_.forEach(uhoh, () => {})

uhoh.forEach(() => {})

lodash's forEach has no problem running on a falsey value (it gives you back the value) whereas standard lib leads you to a TypeError.

Two thoughts here. The standard lib forces the programmer to think more about types, which is a good thing. Second is that lodash's more loosey goosey approach acts as vendor lock-in. In two years, when there's 60 lines and 3 files of separation btwn uhoh's assignment and the _.forEach invocation, you won't know whether it's expected to be null or not. So you won't know if you should replace the code with

uhoh.forEach(...)

or

(uhoh || []).forEach(...)