[Grieving]

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.

edit: Confused dependents with dependencies

[rnestler]

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]

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]

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

[ainar-g]

And the latest version of is-number is 7.0.0, interestingly enough.

[pdpi]

You have to wonder what the six backwards incompatible changes were.

[rezonant]

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

[dgrin91]

In the about for the project it says

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

[uxp]

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]

27 dependants, not dependencies. It has one dependency.

[1_player]

I'm not sure where are you seeing that username, but no, sadly it's not a joke.

[Nicksil]

https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-even

redirects to

https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-even

[Grieving]

If you click on the github link, it redirects to an archived repo under that username.