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!
