I completely agree with the author. The loudest people in the Node community have been evangelizing this practice for as long as I can remember. This shouldn't

I completely agree with the author. The loudest people in the Node community have been evangelizing this practice for as long as I can remember. This shouldn't come as a surprise. The argument, "If I didn't write it I don't have to think about it" is ludicrous. I just have to point at the left-pad incident disprove the premise of this argument. The analogy of building things with a bunch of npm lego blocks is laughable. Those responsible for advocating the use of trivial functions by acquiring module dependencies are leading the masses astray. "But, If I find that there's a bug in a module I can AUTOMATICALLY fix it everywhere!" No. You still need to assess how the change to that module impacts any code that depends on it. Just by updating a module and posting a "minor" bug fix can lead to other bugs that RELIED on the behavior as it was originally written. It's simple, write your own trivial functions. Test them. Maintain them. P.S. Another module that can easily be in-lined to every code base you own. (3 million downloads this week). https://www.npmjs.com/package/escape-string-regexp https://www.npmjs.com/package/escape-string-regexp