https://github.com/chains-project/deps.dev_stats

longitudinal study of package registry growth
https://github.com/chains-project/deps.dev_stats

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longitudinal study of package registry growth

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/chains-project/deps.dev_stats
• Owner: chains-project
• Created: 2023-11-30T08:28:25.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-06-11T04:50:33.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-11T02:52:15.745Z (11 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 764 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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Utils:

###  get_package_stats.py

`get_package_stats.py` compute the total number of dependents

```

....

Version 2.9.0: 885 dependents

Version 2.9.1: 1170 dependents

Version 3.0.0-alpha1: 79 dependents

Version 3.0.0-beta1: 32 dependents

Version 3.0.0-beta2: 188 dependents

Total unique dependents for org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api: 15378

```

## extract-history.sh

go over each past commit and copy version of stats.json at that commit in directory `history`

## create-graph.py

Create line charts for number of dependencies over time

### Absolute Growth (deps.dev data)

![Package counts over time](package_trends_absolute.png)

Something happened in NPM counting

### Relative Growth (deps.dev data)

![Relative package growth](package_trends_relative.png)

Max derivative is Cargo