henry_flower | Зе npm конспірасі

Даглас Кракфод, наприклад, при нагоді, обожнює хвалитися що не користується npm взагалі (тобто зовсім), але не ніколи не пояснює чому.

Лайна там у регістрі, звичайно, ~88.44%, але я, наприклад, користуюся npm кожен день та не уявляю як можна інакше.

Аж ось свіжа коспірасі:

'JS developers bribe and pay each other to include their projects as useless NPM dependencies, so they can rack up downloads and go to the next employer with a "My package has 2 million downloads, I want x% more than market rate" attitude.

It's like the equivalent of influencer marketing, but for code packages.'
'I don't know if they bribe each other, but there's definitely a lot of people shilling garbage libraries because they have income streams dependent on it.

Certain people here [HN] have alerts set up for certain topics so they can come in and astroturf. [0] You'll be able to spot them if you keep a look out for it.

They specifically target noob questions/discussions, post links to their blogs that talk about certain dependencies. The articles themselves have very little substance, they're full of buzzwords and spend all their words making ambiguous claims, for example they'll say that the dependency makes your code "scale", but won't give any examples from a large code-base, especially not any comparing to the alt case (without the dependency). They make claims about performance, but don't elaborate, don't show benchmarks (or the'll show benchmarks that don't apply to 99% of projects, kind of like how immutableJS is obviously not faster unless you're working with big data structures, which you almost never are in your standard CRUD app where everything is paginated server side).

This shit is everywhere, and there's a lot of people with a vested interest in making sure these tools propagate as much as possible.'

Років зі 5 тому гостре око нарешті помітив, що деякі нові JS utils виглядають так, ніби вони написані суто для того, щоб бути рекламою крихітних хфірм, які займаються консалтінгом (гамериканський ефемізм "ми робимо веб аплікації та маємо зась грошей на хфізичний охфіс"). Виявляється, з того часу виросло ціле покоління нових варіацій паразитів.

What a time to be alive! ггг

[0] astroturf -- creating the impression of public support by paying people in the public to pretend to be supportive.