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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by raverbashing on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:45AM (#29250166)
The real question is why JS can't provide the answer to "isFunction" in a builtin method
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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by datagram on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @04:40PM (#29259186)
It can: JavaScript has a `typeof` operator that can be used for this. If you read the readme for is-fn, it points out that the package is only useful for code that needs to run in certain older browsers that have a buggy implementation of `typeof`.
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