[BUG] Package search rank criteria states that npm uses npms - it is not
Open
Nobody has claimed this yet.
content
- Dominant language
- MDX
- Stars
- 711
- Forks
- 4.2k
- Avg merge
- 4d 16h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 3
Description
What / Why
content/packages-and-modules/getting-packages-from-the-registry/searching-for-and-choosing-packages-to-download.mdx is outdated. npm no longer uses npms for scoring. And there is no up-to-date information on how npm is scoring packages anywhere.
Where
https://docs.npmjs.com/searching-for-and-choosing-packages-to-download
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Open content/packages-and-modules/getting-packages-from-the-registry/searching-for-and-choosing-packages-to-download.mdx and review the package-ranking text against current npm documentation or authoritative npm sources. Update the outdated statement about npms and document current scoring information where it can be verified.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100