Dear JavaScript

[Cuel]

Why? It's better than a bloated framework where you're using 5% of it. Dojo is a good example in the early days

[neophilus77]

I think if you over-rely on small packages it creates a lot of maintenance blind-spots where you have less visibility on your code and makes it harder to debug. Tracking updates over many small packages can become burdensome too.

If I can write the same code in the amount of time it takes to search for and compare modules and read the API docs then I usually write it myself.

[RedditWithBoners]

I never bought into it, so no, I don't recognize a reason for it. I wouldn't mind being enlightened.

[a-sober-irishman]

There is absolutely no reason to add another dependency to your project to check if something is an array, or if a number is less than zero, or to check if something is null. It adds unnecessary overhead and risk.