NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads

732K downloads per month. 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…

Judging from this page (https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended/is-even), it appears that many of its dependents are joke packages. For example: - is-is-even: checks if the passed function is is-even - is-odd-or-even: determines if a given number is odd or even. - is-ice-cream: Amazing lib to check if string contain your favorite ice cream flavor Probably the main reason it has so many downloads is that it's imported as a module (rather than integrated as a constituent function) by the author's popular…

Kinda funny such a package exists. I was looking at the source and to be fair the author states "I created this in 2014, when I was learning how to program.". The project is archived. Anyways, source seems to be as such: 'use strict'; var isOdd = require('is-odd'); module.exports = function isEven(i) { return !isOdd(i); }; Then we look as the is-odd package and we see the following: 'use strict'; const isNumber = require('is-number'); module.exports = function isOdd(value) { const…