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HISTORICAL RECORD2014–2018
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npmtop

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Observed mentions: 2014-07-04 05:16:24 UTC to 2018-06-17 15:26:21 UTC.

012014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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One (very arbitrary) metric of TJ's position in the node community: https://github.com/substack/npmtop running it today tells us that he's still number one: rank percent packages author ---- ------- -------- ------ 1 0.60 % 548 tjholowaychuk 2 0.44 % 401 substack 3 0.41 % 379 jongleberry 4 0.40 % 367 dominictarr 5 0.37 % 341 jonschlinkert 6 0.37 % 337 sindresorhus 7 0.36 % 331 juliangruber 8 0.34 % 317 mikolalysenko 9 0.31 % 289 raynos 10 0.28 % 260 mathias 11 0.28 % 257 hughsk 12 0.28 % 255 forbeslindesay 13 0.26 % 239 tootallnate 14 0.23 % 216 clewfirst 15 0.23 % 208 azer
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