Micro modules on NPM are in fact a problem, but I don’t think this was laziness. It was the first, but clumsy, step to the desire for a JS std lib.
We definitely shouldn’t advocate this mentality “put these little snippets on your codebase” because it by far isn’t a solution. Instead, we need to speak loud about a good std lib on Javascript.
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I don't disagree with you that we do need a JS std lib but even that wouldn't be perfect. We will always need to extend what a given lib/framework has to offer. That's simple how reality works even when we look at more mature languages that have a…
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