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globals

Global identifiers from different JavaScript environments

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Global identifiers from different JavaScript environments

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Observed mentions: 2016-03-24 20:32:27 UTC to 2019-05-13 03:42:02 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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daurnimator·May 13, 2019

Thanks for the new method! In fengari we currently use https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari-interop/blob/8e59efb7... const global_env = (function() { /* global WorkerGlobalScope */ /* see https://github.com/sindresorhus/globals/issues/127 */ if (typeof process !== "undefined") { /* node */ return global; } else if (typeof window !== "undefined") { /* browser window */ return window; } else if (typeof WorkerGlobalScope !== 'undefined' && self instanceof WorkerGlobalScope) { /* web worker */ return self; } else { /* unknown global env */ return (0, eval)('this'); /* use non-strict mode to get global env */ } })(); I created https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari-interop/issues/45 to track

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orf·Mar 24, 2016

Holy crap, I had a look through https://www.npmjs.com/~sindresorhus There are so many one line packages: https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-finite/blob/master/index.... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-fn/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-gif/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-github-down/blob/master/c... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-ip/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-npm/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-obj/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/imagemin/advpng-bin/blob/master/lib/index... https://github.com/chalk/ansi-regex/blob/master/index.js (my favourite) https://github.com/sindresorhus/array-move/blob/master/index... https://github.com/sindresorhus/compare-urls/blob/master/ind... https://github.com/sindresorhus/debug-log/blob/master/i

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ndex.... https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-url/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/fix-path/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/fn-args/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/fn-name/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/globals/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/imul/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-text-path/blob/master/ind... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-up/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-travis/blob/master/index.... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-video/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-webp/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-archive/blob/master/index... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-admin/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-absolute-url/blob/master/... https://github.com/sindresorhus/ipify/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-url-superb/blob/master/in... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-tif/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/datetime/leap-year/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/lpad/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/md5-hex/blob/master/index.js And I ran out of willpower, at only L. Seems to me the complete lack of any decent standard library has caused this Cambrian explosion of packages, and the overhead is astounding. Sure it's appealing to google "nodejs validate ip", then run "npm install is-ip" and use it with "require('is-ip')", but fuck me how wasteful do you want to be. My frontend ember app ends up installing over 500mb of dependencies (most of which is useless test files and other redundant fluff files). How has this happened? What's to stop one of those one line packages adding a malicious one liner that concatenates and uploads your super-secret private source code to somebodies server? You're really trusting the complete integrity of your codebase because you depend on "is-array", because you can't be bothered to write "x.toString() === '[object Array]'", and JS introspection (which seems so (ab)used) is so broken that this is needed? Woah.

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