There are some common tasks in JavaScript that seem tedious to write, such as shuffling an array. Lodash is a popular library that provides functions for solved problems like shuffling, making it easier to insert into projects with ES6 imports. It has over 2 billion downloads and accounts for 4% of npm's weekly download traffic, being directly depended upon by more than 27,000 packages and indirectly depended upon by 100,000 packages. Lodash offers functions such as `shuffle`, `range`, and `sampleSize` that can be used to simplify common tasks like shuffling an array, creating a range of numbers, and picking a random sample set. These functions can improve performance compared to implementing them manually. The author recommends checking out Lodash's documentation for other useful functions, which is hosted on Netlify with the Open Source Plan available for free.