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"...a sorta-popular JavaScript package. I say “sorta” because it’s used by lots of people, but it’s not pervasive. It had 105 million downloads in 2022." Is th
by asgraham 4y ago
"...a sorta-popular JavaScript package. I say “sorta” because it’s used by lots of people, but it’s not pervasive. It had 105 million downloads in 2022."
Is there any standard of popularity where 100 million+ downloads in a year is only "sorta" popular?
- tipiirai 4y agoI think GitHub stars tell much more about the popularity. NPM download count prefers dependencies like lodash.
- irthomasthomas 4y ago90% of my github stars are projects which I skimmed over and thought looked cool and I might download one day.
- elliotpage 4y agoDitto. I use them to (hopefully) send good vibes the the creator / maintainer - you never know, they may need the tiny endorphin hit!
- johannes1234321 4y agoWhich means it is a project you should some basic level of interest in. A download might be a dependency of a dependency of a dependency you don't really care about and actually would like to get rid of ...
- actionfromafar 4y agoIndeed. "13% as popular as React". Sheesh.
- fmajid 4y agoIt might just be a humblebrag
- LtWorf 4y agoI think companies don't set up local caches. So all those million downloads could just be a few companies running tests on every commit.
- amelius 4y agoWell, I didn't know about Helmet.js, but I've seen React mentioned many times on HN.