Guys, it's satire. Pretty good satire (the code block where he keeps mistyping bash commands should have given it away).<p>Also note how the author's tagline is 'javascript clickbait enthusiast' :-)
That would be outrageous... if it were true.<p>There is no yummy when you npm install express and even if there were, the code shown would certainly not like a tweet as the POST is not authenticated.<p>And the author has described himself as "JavaScript clickbait enthusiast."<p>A joke? Bad one?
> Imagine if the apple you were eating for breakfast had 291 ingredients, or if the car you drove to work had 291 parts.<p>Someone doesn't know anything about cars.
> every time you download express, you favorite this exact tweet from Hot Pockets: introducing their new signature Hickory Ham sandwich pastries<p>Now I'm curious how many of top 100 popular npm packages include the same shady monetization?
But it is a true problem, haha.<p>I know real good programmers, who ride on the "don't reinvent the wheel" train to the max.<p>And while the code base don't get cluttered with "ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation[s] of half of Common Lisp" we implemented ourself, we now have hundrets of modules, which themself probably contain this "ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp"