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Is there an easy way to trace the most popular packages that use it?
by bufferoverflow 2y ago
Is there an easy way to trace the most popular packages that use it?
- jayflux 2y agoSadly not and I think this is an important question because I’m sure the majority of those downloads are coming from some downstream packages that everyone is using. Ordering and showing dependent-downloads would be useful in security issues when wanting to contact package authors who have the largest exposure to an exploited package. It was raised on npm’s feedback before, I don’t think they were interested in adding it. EDIT: the bulk of downloads appear to be from handlebars-helpers
- StayTrue 2y agoClick ‘Dependents’.
- jayflux 2y agoDependents doesn’t order by download count though, you don’t know which of the 46 dependents are downloading it the most.
- dagw 2y agoIn this case main culprit seems to be a package called handlebars-helpers which is a collection of utilities for working with the handlebars templating language which was pretty popular in the JS world for a while.