NPM Quality
The Missing Metric
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Software engineer at MediaSmart Mobile
Freelance scalability consultant
The problem
Source: modulecounts.com
104k modules to choose from
Why is that a problem?
Significant overlap
Many sub-optimal packages
Which modules are the good ones?
How do we compare with other languages?
Towards a Quality Metric
Downloads per day
GitHub stars / forks
Number of versions
Open issues vs closed issues
No need to peek inside the code!
Package quality
A proof of concept
Browse packages in npmjs.org
and then look for the GitHub project
Can be extended to other repos
Thanks!
NPM Quality
By Alex Fernández
NPM Quality
Presentation for dotJS, Nov 17th 2014 Paris.
