A funny thing about npm

#discovery #npm #opensource #javascript

Every now and then, I need to make a search on npm website. As I often do, I decided to add a new query URL in my browser.

So I searched for a random letter on npm website to see the pattern of the search query.

But, to my surprise, it redirected me to an existing package with this only letter as a name. "LOL", I thought.

Then I tried with "a" and it existed too! As a result, I eventually searched for all the alphabet and... all the alphabet exists! WOW. 😂

As a proof, I made a quick script to gather all of them and their descriptions. You can find it here:

Here is the full list:

a : Mocking framework and test framework in compact when-style. With recursive test runner
b : Benchmarks for Node.js.
c : Set and remove comments from files and directories, and view them from the command line.
d : Property descriptor factory
e : A modern universal utility library.
f : Functional Microservice Request Library
g : Globalize module functions
h : generate HTML from javascript array structures
i : custom inflections for nodejs
j : CLI tool for working with spreadsheet files
k : new web framework
l : Mix Async/Sync code with Promises and Streams in a reusable unified line
m : mongodb version management
n : Interactively Manage All Your Node Versions
o : common object helper functions
p : pattern matching in javascript for asyncronous iteration
q : A library for promises (CommonJS/Promises/A,B,D)
r : require relative to your root project
s : SheetJS Spreadsheet Helper Library
t : tree traversal and manipulation
u : A minimalist, functional utility library designed for embedding into another small program.
v : Secure, Synchronized, Realtime, Cloud, Native JavaScript Variables & Events
w : WordBox cli to quickly spin up PHP dev environments.
x : Apply HTML transformations using attributes
y : Simple object inspection tool
z : native pattern matching for javascript

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