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Please don't do this here.

Yes, it is called `padStart`: https://devdocs.io/javascript/global_objects/string/padstart

JavaScript has come a long way in recent years, but the lack of a comprehensive standard library is still absolutely mind boggling.

This is really pretty sad. A standard library is paramount to a stable and easy to develop ecosystem.

It may be, but this is a weird thread to bring that up since Javascript has padStart, and TFA is about building a web server with only the standard library.

the OP was referring to this incident https://github.com/stevemao/left-pad/issues/4

where a very basic package everyone depended on was yanked from npmjs.

azer's original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510

JavaScript's standard library has a fair amount.

Not Python levels of completeness, but near Java levels.

The parent's example is String.prototype.padStart() [1]

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

What are you missing from the native language + lodash?

While it's a valid point that lodash provides a lot, my point is that with any other language I've ever used, I don't need to add something like lodash.