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Is there a tool that helps compare npm downloads for a package to see what percentage of downloads are on various major versions?

Also posted to Mastodon.

13 replies

Geoff Rich Bluesky 11 min later

like this? majors.nullvoxpopuli.com/q?minors=fal...
1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 27 min later
  
  Beautiful, yes! Thank you!
2. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 35 min later
  
  On closer inspection I have more questions! 😅
  
  If a package has a v1, stable with no updates; then v2 ships ~40 patch versions, wouldn’t that bias cumulative counts to v2? A project using v2 could download up to 40 different versions but a project using v1 would have 1!
  1. Geoff Rich Bluesky 1 hr later
    
    hm, not sure I follow - how does the number of versions a project _could_ download influence the cumulative number of downloads for that major?
    1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 15 hr later
      
      thinking about this a bit more — limiting the results to the most recent 7 day window mitigates most of my concerns (I think!). But without that recency I would assume that a package with more versions will see more cumulative downloads over time
Jeppe Reinhold 🇩🇰 Bluesky 32 min later

NpmBurst by @craigory.dev is great for this!

craigory.dev/npm-burst/?p...
1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 37 min later
  
  oooh I love a good pie chart
  1. Craigory Coppola Bluesky 2 hr later
    
    I really believe a sunburst is the ideal diagram for this
2. Craigory Coppola Bluesky 39 min later
  
  Oh! Neat, I wasn't sure this had gained any traction outside of my colleagues
  1. Jeppe Reinhold 🇩🇰 Bluesky 46 min later
    
    The only problem I have is that on mobile I can't change the package, I have to change the package name via the query param.
    Is that just me.?
    1. Craigory Coppola Bluesky 47 min later
      
      Oh, interesting 🤔. I'll throw a fix up
      1. Craigory Coppola Bluesky 50 min later
        
        @reinhold.is should be fixed now. It only listened to enter keypress there.
Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

Jeppe Reinhold was kind enough to share this tool from Craigory Coppola to compare popularity of different Major/Minor versions of a package on npm:
https://craigory.dev/npm-burst/
via https://bsky.app/profile/reinhold.is/post/3m5kacyaljc2t