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by dewey 530 days ago
Why should anyone vendor a dependency in a critical functionality for three lines of code (https://codeberg.org/prettyid/js/src/branch/master/lib/index...)?
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That's the JavaScript/Node ecosystem in a nutshell. See the LeftPad fiasco and the mere existence of the IsOdd and IsEven packages for more poor judgement.
To be honest that’s because I didn’t flesh out JS counterpart yet. My plan was to have something similar to the Python version: https://codeberg.org/prettyid/python

Of course, if you like the idea but don’t want to add another dependency, you can copy-paste the three-liner as it is! (And I’m sure it’s not even copyrightable right now :-)

multiple dependencies,

Also requires two other packages to run its 3 lines of code.

"dependencies": { "@scure/base": "^1.1.7", "uuidv7": "^1.0.1" }

...but you'll have those dependencies anyway!
only if I can leftpad it first?