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Ask HN: What do you consider when choosing a 3rd party package?

• cimmanom 8y ago
  License. Maturity (is this stable?). Test coverage. Recency of updates (is it actively maintained and up to date?). Size and composition (bug/feature) of issue tracker backlog (how fragile is it? do bugs actually get fixed?). Popularity (if this gets abandoned, will someone else fork and maintain it?). Documentation.
  • Artemix 8y ago
    Adding to that, I also take a look at its dependencies: is it using half the NPM registry (or other central package registry) ?