Package Health Score

86 / 100

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No known security issues
popularity
Key ecosystem project
maintenance
Sustainable
community
Active

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Security

No known security issues

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

Security and license risk for significant versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
17.7.2	\|	04/2023	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
17.6.2	\|	11/2022		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
16.2.0	\|	12/2020		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
15.4.1	\|	07/2020		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
15.3.1	\|	03/2020		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

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Popularity

Key ecosystem project

Weekly Downloads (112,132,966)

GitHub Stars: 11.11K
Forks: 991
Contributors: 270

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package yargs receives a total of 112,132,966 downloads a week. As such, we scored yargs popularity level to be Key ecosystem project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package yargs, we found that it has been starred 11,106 times.

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

Community

Active

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 270
Funding: No

A good and healthy external contribution signal for yargs project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

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Maintenance

Sustainable

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 290
Open PR: 28
Last Release: 2 years ago
Last Commit: 11 months ago

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

An important project maintenance signal to consider for yargs 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: >=12

Age: 11 years
Dependencies: 7 Direct
Versions: 251
Install Size: 292 kB
Dist-tags: 8
# of Files: 62
Maintainers: 2
TS Typings: Yes

yargs 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.

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(async function () {
    makeDir('screenshots');
    makeDir(`screenshots/${argv.runType}`);

    const appiumCaps = require('./appium.capabilities.json')[argv.runType];
    let args = new NsCapabilities({
      port: 4723,
      isSauceLab: argv.sauceLab || false,
      runType: argv.runType,
      appPath: argv.appPath, //'nativescriptvueuitests-debug.apk',
      appiumCaps: appiumCaps,
      verbose: argv.verbose || false,
      validateArgs: () => {},
    })
    // Hack to fix a `Cannot read property 'token' of undefined` error
    // See https://github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-dev-appium/issues/142
    if (args.isAndroid) {
        args.device = DeviceManager.getDefaultDevice(args, appiumCaps.avd);
    } else {
        args.device = DeviceManager.getDefaultDevice(args);
    }

    AppiumDriver.createAppiumDriver(args)
        .then(driver => run(driver))
        .then(() => console.log('Buh-Bye...'))
        .catch((err) => console.log(err));
})();

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Yargs

Yargs be a node.js library fer hearties tryin' ter parse optstrings

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Description

Yargs helps you build interactive command line tools, by parsing arguments and generating an elegant user interface.

It gives you:

commands and (grouped) options (my-program.js serve --port=5000).
a dynamically generated help menu based on your arguments:

mocha [spec..]

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Commands
  mocha inspect [spec..]  Run tests with Mocha                         [default]
  mocha init

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y18n cliui escalade string-width yargs-parser get-caller-file require-directory

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What is yargs?

yargs the modern, pirate-themed, successor to optimist. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for yargs, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is yargs popular?

The npm package yargs receives a total of 112,132,966 weekly downloads. As such, yargs popularity was classified as a key ecosystem project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is yargs well maintained?

We found indications that yargs maintenance is sustainable demonstrating some project activity. We saw a total of 270 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is yargs safe to use?

The npm package yargs was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

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