Isn't this just that node is a newish framework? Discoverability and metrics of quality are issues but I think many devs are excited by node because it is green

Isn't this just that node is a newish framework? Discoverability and metrics of quality are issues but I think many devs are excited by node because it is green field. More libraries are good in the long term as the best ones will rise to the top. npm itself solves dependency management really well, but I agree currently a feature like npm star doesn't really work. I'm not sure npm should be solving this problem though. The most valuable data comes from GitHub on modules.