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npm package · declared by 99 of 2,343 sampled repositories · graph computed 2026-08-24
Counted from the runtime dependencies public repositories declare — not the resolved tree. A transitive dependency is a consequence; a declared one is a choice. Development dependencies are excluded because they repeat across every project in a language regardless of what is being built.
Declared with
ranked by association, not by count| Declared with | Repositories | vs chance |
|---|---|---|
| express | 18 of 2,343 | 0.43 |
| better-sqlite3 | 13 of 2,343 | 0.43 |
| electron-updater | 9 of 2,343 | 0.39 |
| @modelcontextprotocol/sdk | 19 of 2,343 | 0.37 |
| commander | 14 of 2,343 | 0.34 |
| yaml | 9 of 2,343 | 0.34 |
| marked | 8 of 2,343 | 0.31 |
| zod | 26 of 2,343 | 0.31 |
| dotenv | 10 of 2,343 | 0.23 |
| axios | 8 of 2,343 | 0.19 |
| react | 11 of 2,343 | 0.01 |
| react-dom | 8 of 2,343 | -0.04 |
Every pair above is counted from the same evidence: repo manifest.
Used instead
candidates · shares a neighbourhood and refuses to co-occurNo alternative measured. A pair qualifies only if it shares a neighbourhood and then fails to appear together against an expectation that it would — and almost everything that shares a neighbourhood does appear together. That is the test working, not a gap in the data: similarity alone would list this tool’s closest neighbours as alternatives, and most of them are things it is used with.