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		ubernostrum on Sept 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck int... JavaScript has things like left-pad because it doesn't have a standard library of modules for common tasks like other languages do, and because some of its built-in types don't have the same rich set of operations as other languages.

Babooster on Sept 18, 2017 [–]

http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...

is a nice article on the subject of left-pad. If you can't implement a left-pad in less than 5 minutes yourself, you don't know how to code.

Ajedi32 on Sept 18, 2017 | [–]

Just because you _can_ spend 5 minutes re-inventing the wheel in every project you write, doesn't mean you _should_.

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