[inopinatus]

I getcha, but these days the ambit reach of "application" extends to Javascript executing client-side in an environment that's basically overrun with lions/tigers/bears, and I'll suggest that's particularly a consideration when the front-end is a SPA participating in a CQRS/event-sourced overall application architecture.

[tomnipotent]

For perspective, the npm uuid package is now being downloaded ~50M/week. It's usage is ubiquitous at this point, on any platform JS is running.

https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended/uuid

[NicoJuicy]

Little bit later to reply.

Unfortunately that doesn't mean much.

Since nodejs is a server side language and can handle that package too. And it's not "solely" for js/spa's.