What does HackerNews think of just?

Speed brings value. Loading dash without optimizing it carries a huge weight. Weight can slow down users. Users leave the cart before completing a purchase.

Lodash is engineered to deliver “perfection” and performance, to an absolute fault. Try `import {unary} from 'lodash'` and tell me how big the bundle gets. FYI unary should be `fn => x => fn(x)`.

On the other hand, copy-pasting actually-useful utilities like groupBy from some random site defeats the purpose of npm. Luckily there are sane Lodash alternatives like Just:

https://github.com/angus-c/just

Tree-shaking doesn't help much when the tree-shaken implementation is so bloated.

Here's the one you referenced, lodash.chunk: https://unpkg.com/lodash.chunk – 140 lines after removing comments and whitespace.

That's pretty small compared to a lot of the lodash utilities. Try spot-checking a few on unpkg.

I prefer angus's `just` utilities: https://github.com/angus-c/just

Maybe lodash or just could be the std lib.

Just doesn't have any further dependencies.

https://github.com/angus-c/just