Name: npm-explicit-installs
Owner: npm
Description: The package that contains the list of packages displayed on the npm home page
Created: 2015-02-24 00:42:13.0
Updated: 2018-04-23 13:46:18.0
Pushed: 2016-09-02 20:57:03.0
Size: 2074
Language: JavaScript
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This is the list of packages that appears on the home page. It is generated by an occasional, one-off data crunch which counts how many times a package name appears in an “npm install” command. This is not the same as downloads, since most packages are installed as dependencies of other packages. This metric tends to surface packages that people start with, and also frequently used CLI tools.
Once the job is run, we have to manually find logos etc. for each package. That, and the slowness of the job, is why this list is not currently automated or very frequently updated. Luckily, the list of explicitly installed packages changes only very slowly. You can see a version of the same data from 2015-10-13 here:
https://docs.google.com/a/npmjs.com/spreadsheets/d/120am_J_6g5WKI0ArzoaY3EsYiP_KL1LJrXpVVRoxknY/edit?usp=sharing
npm install
commands to try and get on to the list.