[pphysch]

Those may be satirical, but `leftpad` is real.

https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...

[corbezzoli]

`left-pad` is the perfect amount of complexity and "I'm sure I can do it" ability by everyone who looks at it. I want you to write that logic and not have some stupid mistake that was fixed in that module 15 years ago.

Now we have String.prototype.padStart thanks to that debacle.

[pphysch]

Then copy-paste it from SO^H^H your LLM copilot. It's clearly not something that benefits from being an external dependency.