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by fbrchps
1532 days ago
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> In JS you need a handful of third party packages just to tell if a number is odd But you absolutely don't. I get that you're taking a worst-case example, but it also stands that if Node developers would actually take some time to write stuff themselves -- the leftpad situation was absolutely stupid, because `.padStart()` exists -- then the situation wouldn't be nearly as bad. At my workplace, if you can write the functionality in (depending on the scale) a day to a week, then you're not allowed to use a 3rd party package for it. You can _look_ at what other people have done, but doing it in-house leads to less work overall in the future. |
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String.prototype.padStart hit Chrome in January 2017 and Firefox in June 2016. `left-pad` was published in March 2014.
A lot of these small packages that seem ridiculous now addressed (sometimes poorly!) missing aspects of the library specification for pretty good reasons. The JS specification has improved a lot over time--I just chuck `ESNext` into the library tsconfig.json for every Node project--but there is a lot of historical baggage with which this kind of dismissal doesn't adequately come to grips.