When I was learning JS/node/npm as a total programming newbie, a lot of the advice online was basically “if you write your own version of foobar when foobar is already available as an npm package, you’re stupid for wasting your time”.

I’d never worked in any other ecosystem, and I wish I realized that advice was specific to JS culture

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jlarocco 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not really bad advice, it just has different implications in Javascript.

In other languages, you'd have a few dependencies on larger libraries providing related functionality, where the Javascript culture is to use a bunch of tiny libraries to give the same functionality.

	▲	lenerdenator 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sometimes I wonder how many of these tiny libraries are just the result of an attempt to have something ready for a conference talk and no one had the courage to say "Uh, Chris, that already exists, and the world doesn't need your different approach on it."