componentsopen-source

How to rank the popularity of open-source components in a package manager?

Is it based on the number of downloads or the number of dependencies of the open-source components, or from another perspective?

I would like to obtain the rankings of popular components in various package managers.

Solution

  • As of 2023, there are multiples package managers per languages, frameworks, OSs available. Each one is providing an analogous but different way of displaying and sorting open-source modules. This functionality is most of the time achievable online with a web browser for certain package managers or with an agregator service.

    Agregators services

    https://libraries.io

    Language and frameworks

    Python

    pip: better use https://pypi.org/search or see pip specific thread

    Node.js

    npm/yarn: https://www.npmjs.com/search or see this answer

    PHP

    Composer: https://packagist.org or see here

    Java

    Maven: https://search.maven.org

    OS package repositories

    Windows

    Chocolatey: Choco package search

    linux

    apt: see your distro specific website.

    MacOS, Linux

    HomeBrew: see HomeBrewOfficial website