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Security and quality aside, I feel that npm have a larger selection of libraries.


As someone who has written multiple Node and C# backends, Node isn't even close to the ecosystem quality. It's not in the same solar system.

Npm has tons of libraries, but they're mostly abandoned. Many barely worked in the first place. And if they're even a little out of date, there's a decent chance they're missing TypeScript types or they won't work with your module system. It's a nightmare.

Struggling with missing or broken dependencies is what made me swear off Node backends permanently.


Well yeah I like how they boast numbers of libraries and numbers of downloads but most is crap.


Sure, with quality libraries like "is-even", who can deny the supremacy of the JS ecosystem?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even


Wow thanks, a perfect package, just what I was looking for. I needed something to determine is even values.




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