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Importing lots of code from others is a path towards bugs and mistakes. You end up not understanding your dependencies, importing far too much (because you want function x but also get a-z), amd dealing with changes you didn't want or need which mix security fixes with features.

Better to minimise dependencies particularly for trivial functions. Not just for security but for ease of development.

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I love node - it's a really irresponsible way of programming. The objective is to make as much the concern of someone else as possible. "How do I know what an array is? I'm just writing this app that works with arrays.."

:-)

In seriousness though, there many ways to write an isArray. Just yesterday I was looking at the different things String::repeat() handles on Mozilla's site. What seems trivial can be defined slightly differently everywhere and I tend to reach into the npm bag if I know it's open to interpretation.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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