Have you looked at http://toolbox.no.de/

there is also http://eirikb.github.com/nipster/

On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 6:15:38 AM UTC-7, Jeff Kunkle wrote:
>
> Having used node steadily for the past six months, one of the biggest 
> problems I have is finding quality packages. It's easy to simply find 
> packages for a particular task, but determining which are well written, 
> performant, and carefully maintained is not straightforward. And somewhat 
> related, as a developer of several open source packages I'm often left 
> wondering if anyone is actually using them. How do I decide which packages 
> to spend time on without knowing which are most used, if at all? I realize 
> I can look to see what is most depended upon at search.npmjs.org but 
> that's only a partial picture. Packages that are more likely to be 
> leveraged in end-user applications are underrepresented, if they even 
> appear there at all.
>
> Would there be any community interest in developing a basic package usage 
> tracking capability? Maybe something like a simple package/file that can be 
> included in a package to count each time the package is installed or 
> required and report the results back to a central website on some interval. 
> Such a basic capability would be incredibly valuable to developers and 
> users. Users can then quickly determine which packages are well used/tested 
> and developers get to see which of their projects are actually being used. 
> I can imagine a whole host of other useful capabilities like collecting 
> metrics on API usage for help in understanding the potential impact of an 
> API change, but all of it would be secondary to a basic usage counting 
> ability.
>
> I'm sure there will be privacy concerns, but I think we can work to 
> address them if there's enough interest in such a capability. I'm more than 
> willing to have those discussions and work on a solution if people think 
> it's worthwhile.
>

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