In a study of more than 230,000 npm packages and 38,000 JavaScript applications, trivial packages made up 16.8% of the studied npm packages.

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"In a study of more than 230,000 npm packages and 38,000 JavaScript applications, trivial packages made up 16.8% of the studied npm packages."

The study found trivial packages common in the npm ecosystem and examined why developers use them and what additional dependency risks they introduce.

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Source title Why Do Developers Use Trivial Packages? An Empirical Case Study on npm

Source authors Rabe Abdalkareem; Olivier Nourry; Sultan Wehaibi; Suhaib Mujahid; Emad Shihab

Source year 2017

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