# Lodash

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Lodash and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Widely used JavaScript utility library of collection and object helpers, trusted for reliability and functional-style transforms. Critics note bundling and ESM compatibility problems, and that it's heavy to drop.

## Why people recommend it

- Many useful small utility functions (4 comments): "The best outcome was things like jquery and then lodash where a whole collection of small util functions get rolled in to one package." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45949466)) "a larger suite of utility functions (say, most of Lodash / es-toolkit" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377084)) "there's still a lot of useful utilities in lodash" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45950988))
- Well-tested, reliable, established library (2 comments): "Lodash or Moment.js, those are actual bona fide libraries" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375702)) "well-known/tested/reliable utility libraries like lodash" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022098))
- Functional collection transform helpers (2 comments): "It's like reduce, but expressly for transforming one collection to another." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49737117)) "who very much likes using RxJS and the functional flavour of lodash" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422158))

## What people warn about

- Bundler and ESM compatibility problems (3 comments): "lodash-es doesn’t ESM lodash/fp, which means there is no straightforward way of using it with Vite after version 5" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628592)) "lodash/fp doesn't deduplicate with lodash when bundled" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628622)) "without tree shaking, lodash is such a blight" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45950575))
- Hard to remove from projects (2 comments): "it's a long journey to fully get rid of something like Lodash from an old project" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077716)) "without tree shaking, lodash is such a blight" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45950575))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [jQuery](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jquery.md): 111 recommend
- [Picknplace.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/picknplace-js.md): 58 recommend
- [Alpine.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/alpine-js.md): 50 recommend
- [Effect (TypeScript library)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/effect.md): 38 recommend
- [Video.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/video-js.md): 24 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Lodash", https://hackerapproved.com/p/lodash/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).