5 Questionable NPM Packages

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There are quite a number of questionable NPM packages on the NPM registry, but here are a few: 1: is-ten-thousand This has got to be the more ridiculous node module ever. It’s 249 lines long and imports 29 other node modules (Including jQuery). The whole point in the library is to return true if the … Read more

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UniqueIt vs WTDawson.PersistentID

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Both of these are libraries I built for C#, they have similar purposes but this page should hopefully help you tell what is different and what is similar between these two libraries. Library NuGet GitHub UniqueIt https://www.nuget.org/packages/uniqueit https://github.com/MrBisquit/uniqueit WTDawson.PersistentID https://www.nuget.org/packages/WTDawson.PersistentID https://github.com/MrBisquit/WTDawson.PersistentID First of all, what do they do? Both UniqueIt and WTDawson.PersistentID both are useful … Read more

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Using WTDawson.PersistentID to build replicable IDs.

WTDawson.PersistentID is a library built in C# designed to make it easier to build IDs that be reproduced with the correct data. The library accepts a list of objects (Has to be a string, integer or DateTime object) and a “magic” number. The “magic” number is a key which is used when generating the ID. … Read more

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WTDawson.EventPipes

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WTDawson.EventPipes is a C# Class library designed to make a named pipe instance event based to make it easier for interprocess communication using named pipes. This library allows you to send data over a named pipe easily and get an event on the client side of it containing the data. Messages are sent as bytes … Read more

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