susaverage day in NPM land
440GB weekly for “is number”. What in the world is that package doing?
GammaIt handles a bunch of weird edge cases, mostly. And is downloaded almost 70M times a week!
Admiral PatrickSadly, it’s a stupid dependency of a lot of things.
Just ran npm explain is-number on one of my projects, and it’s a dependency of to-regex-range which is a dependency of fill-range which is a dependency of…and so on up the chain.
I was hoping I wouldn’t find that in there, but alas, it is.
apotheotic (she/her)Given that this screenshot is about
to-regex-range I think they might be on to something!
🤦♂️😆
Didn’t even catch that in the screenshot. lol