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.

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Installation

npx @barissozudogru/dep-health

Platform requirements and configuration are documented in the repository instructions.

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

Use cases

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

Evidence

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.

packages   2
overall    7.4 / healthy
critical   0
unknowns   reweighted

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GitHub Actions

Write score evidence to CI and enforce a minimum threshold.

- uses: barissozudogru/[email protected]

Limitations

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