It's not supposed to be a standard, in any way imaginable. It's just boilerplate that you can clone, and modify later if/when you feel like messing with javascript config files.
But hey, thanks for the largely irrelevant, but hilarious xkcd!
I was laughing because the following sentiment is what got us here in the first place:
>"Fuck it, I want to clone some boilerplate, write some code, and build/distribute it", then worry about the finer details later.