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Discussion on: 10 useless NPM Package with millions of downloads

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József Sallai

Which is completely fine, you are entitled to your own opinion. I'm definitely not saying you're the only one who has this opinion - again, it comes down to your development practices and use case. If you prefer writing utility functions yourself and import those instead of installing additional packages, there's nothing wrong with that.

But I still think "useless" is a bit harsh, at least for some of these packages. I can totally see most people agreeing that is-odd and similar packages are useless - in fact I used to joke about it too. But I don't think store2 or polyfills should go under the same category.

I'm not saying you should add a disclaimer (albeit I don't think it would really hurt your article in any way), but it would be nice to include at least some potential use cases in it instead of just laughing at the people who use these packages. It will make your article less opinionated and more unbiased, while also not discrediting the authors of the packages and the people who use them.