Jezen/is-thirteen: Check if a number is equal to 13 (github.com)

Looks like one of a series of joke NPM packages popularized after the left-pad fiasco.

It's not a web joke. It's someone playing around with npm and github.

It used to be that you could setup a web page with just a few lines of code and js script include and a css inlude.

I bet this lib was created as satire. Modern day web frameworks are so bloated and filled with overhead that even a simple one line evaluation can be turned into a monstrosity.

It's satire playing on the fact that the entire Node.js ecosystem is built around 1-liner packages that in any other language this would just be code snippets you'd find on stack overflow.

Look at: is-windows (seems archived now for some reason) or https://github.com/jonschlinkert/isobject - 2.6million dependencies

These packages started out as a good idea to make a standard library for javascript, but after event-stream, left-pad, and other controversies, it's becoming apparent how much of an anti-pattern small 1-liner packages have become.

Well the title might have given it away.... the api of the package is pretty nice actually, some thought was put into it.