It's getting to the point where you need a curated list of packages.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Edin Mujagić <[email protected]>
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> Hi, I was just wondering if there is any kind of solution to potential
> problem of massive amount of packages on npm that are:
>
>  - old packages that use old apis
>  - packages that are init commit
>  - packages that are broken by new npm versions
>
> I understand node ecosystem is all about minimal packages that solve very
> specific problem domains and are glued together by user in their
> applications.
>
> But there are growing number of packages that are basically abandoned. And
> when you take a look at commits you see something like 2 years ago ... 4
> years ago, and also there are more then few issues and some of pull
> requests that aren't commented and authors show no sign of life of project.
>
> My question is:
>  - Does anybody governing node, npm and similiar stuff is aware of these
> issues, and is there potential solution to them?
>  - Are we limited to forking and producing new modules with same / similar
> name - which I believe would be more confusing?
>
> I am asking this because on a daily basis I am encountering packages that
> have latest commit years ago, and maybe some pull requests and few issues
> but are well done packages and are unusable just because of new version of
> node, expres, etc...
>
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