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Where to find a Npm liberays overview?

Hi, I'm new at Web development. Is there a overview of npm liberays? I can't find something. If I don't know which liberays there are, how I should know which one is the right one for my use case?

Sorry, it's my first post here...

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Daniel Parmenvik •

@snuppedeluxe Good that you ask! Using for example npms.io is good to get an understanding of quality, maintenance etc.

Once you've decided what npm packages to use, I would recommend you to look at best practices so that your management of dependencies is secure. Here's a quick quide giving you a good start: bytesafe.dev/posts/npm-security-be...

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Vishal Raj •

@snuppedeluxe If you mean to understand how popular a library is, then you can have a look at

  • The number of stars for the Github repository of the package
  • The number of issues reported in Github
  • The number of weekly downloads in npm
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lencx •

According to the function that needs to be implemented, extract the keywords, and then go to github to search, generally you can find the relevant npm package.