dependencies / Node.js CLI
dep-health
Score npm dependencies using freshness, maintenance, deprecation, and adoption signals.
dep-health reads a package.json, queries public npm metadata, and produces a compact maintenance-health score for every dependency. JSON output and a minimum-score threshold make the same check usable in local review and CI.
verified against its package
The repository's two real development dependencies score 7.4 overall.
A run on 2026-08-26 queried current npm metadata for this repository. Unknown download data was removed from the weighting instead of scored as zero.
observed output
packages 2overall 7.4 / healthycritical 0unknowns reweighted
what it exposes
Capabilities
- Compare installed and latest published versions
- Factor publish recency, deprecation, type support, and download signals into a score
- Filter production and development dependencies
- Emit JSON and fail CI below a chosen score
workflow integration
Keep the evidence in the run
Write score evidence to CI and enforce a minimum threshold.
- uses: barissozudogru/dep-health@v0.5.1good fit
Use it when
- Getting a fast maintenance overview of an npm dependency set
- Finding stale or deprecated packages for deeper review
- Creating a lightweight dependency-health gate in CI
operating limits
Know before using
- It is not a vulnerability or CVE scanner
- Low release frequency can describe a stable package as well as an abandoned one
- Popularity is only one maintenance signal and should not decide adoption by itself