Package Health Score

42 / 100

security
Security review needed
popularity
Limited
maintenance
Inactive
community
Sustainable

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All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
4.9.2	\|	02/2021	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
4.8.0	\|	08/2019		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
3.1.2	\|	09/2016		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.3.0	\|	03/2016		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.2.1	\|	01/2016		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

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Popularity

Limited

Weekly Downloads (544)

GitHub Stars: 1.82K
Forks: 248
Contributors: 30

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package frontail receives a total of 544 downloads a week. As such, we scored frontail popularity level to be Limited.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package frontail, we found that it has been starred 1,817 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Sustainable

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 30
Funding: No

With more than 10 contributors for the frontail repository, this is possibly a sign for a growing and inviting community.

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

No Recent Commits

Open Issues: 44
Open PR: 12
Last Release: 4 years ago
Last Commit: 3 years ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of frontail based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Inactive.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for frontail is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to npm in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: not defined

Age: 13 years
Dependencies: 18 Direct
Versions: 63
Install Size: 200 kB
Dist-tags: 2
# of Files: 39
Maintainers: 1
TS Typings: No

frontail has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

Readme

frontail – streaming logs to the browser

frontail is a Node.js application for streaming logs to the browser. It's a tail -F with UI.

frontial

Quick start

npm i frontail -g or download a binary file from Releases page
frontail /var/log/syslog
visit https://127.0.0.1:9001

Features

log rotation (not on windows!)
auto-scrolling
marking logs
pausing logs
number of unread logs in favicon
themes (default, dark)
highlighting
search (Tab to focus, Esc to clear)
set filter from url parameter filter
tailing multiple files and stdin
basic authentication

Installation options

download a binary file from Releases page (currently frontail doesn't work on Windows)
using npm package: npm i frontail -g
using Docker image: docker run -d -P -v /var/log:/log mthenw/frontail /log/syslog

Usage

frontail [options] [file ...]

Options:

  -V, --version                 output the version number
  -h, --host              listening host, default 0.0.0.0
  -p, --port              listening port, default 9001
  -n, --number          starting lines number, default 10
  -l, --lines            number on lines stored in browser, default 2000
  -t, --theme            name of the theme (default, dark)
  -d, --daemonize               run as daemon
  -U, --user          Basic Authentication username, option works only along with -P option
  -P, --password      Basic Authentication password, option works only along with -U option
  -k, --key            Private Key for HTTPS, option works only along with -c option
  -c, --certificate   Certificate for HTTPS, option works only along with -k option
  --pid-path

frontail dependencies

CBuffer basic-auth-connect byline command-exists commander configstore connect cookie cookie-parser daemon-fix41 express-session fs-tail-stream is-docker serve-static socket.io universal-analytics untildify uuid

frontail development dependencies

eslint eslint-config-airbnb-base eslint-config-prettier eslint-plugin-import jsdom mocha pkg should sinon supertest temp

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What is frontail?

streaming logs to the browser. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for frontail, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is frontail popular?

The npm package frontail receives a total of 544 weekly downloads. As such, frontail popularity was classified as limited. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is frontail well maintained?

We found indications that frontail is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is frontail safe to use?

While scanning the latest version of frontail, we found that a security review is needed. A total of 0 vulnerabilities or license issues were detected. See the full security scan results.

Last updated on 15 November-2024, at 12:19 (UTC).

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frontail – streaming logs to the browser

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Features

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