The handlebars-helpers-ncc package contains 130 different utility dependencies including a few actually useful things like functions to convert Markdown to HTML, but also some weirdly trivial packages like is-even.
I suppose this was a brilliant way for the authors to generate staggeringly high NPM download counts for their packages: Repackage other people’s useful code into convenience functions and then include their own trivial package dependencies several layers deep to multiply their overall downloads count.
I wonder how many jobs they’ve applied to while bragging about their millions of monthly NPM downloads.
722K of those downloads come from this package by the same authors: https://www.npmjs.com/package/handlebars-helpers-ncc
The handlebars-helpers-ncc package contains 130 different utility dependencies including a few actually useful things like functions to convert Markdown to HTML, but also some weirdly trivial packages like is-even.
I suppose this was a brilliant way for the authors to generate staggeringly high NPM download counts for their packages: Repackage other people’s useful code into convenience functions and then include their own trivial package dependencies several layers deep to multiply their overall downloads count.
I wonder how many jobs they’ve applied to while bragging about their millions of monthly NPM downloads.