NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads
732K downloads per month.<p>722K of those downloads come from this package by the same authors: <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/handlebars-helpers-ncc" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/handlebars-helpers-ncc</a><p>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.<p>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 into convenience functions and then include their own trivial package dependencies several layers deep to multiply their overall downloads count.<p>I wonder how many jobs they’ve applied to while bragging about their millions of monthly NPM downloads.