feedback VS main-thread-scheduling

no-one-left-behind[1] was not even a year ago, and yet the link on npm[2] explaining why it was removed is already broken. Classic JS ecosystem.

1: https://github.com/npm/feedback/discussions/858

2: https://www.npmjs.com/package/no-one-left-behind

I created a new discussion in the npm/feedback repo to share my idea. I also mentioned my idea in relevant discussions: npm scores, Weird search behavior with stats, and Improve search functionality on npmjs.com.

We encourage you to open a discussion if you have suggestions for how we can improve npm. You don't need to have a solution to the problem you are facing to kick off a discussion. We are hoping to foster productive and collaborative conversations, so please check out how to give good feedback if you want some guidance on how to kick off a successful discussion.

There is an ongoing discussion about 2FA and possible bandaids for this sort of problem in the npm community forum: https://github.com/npm/feedback/discussions/588

See - https://github.com/npm/feedback/discussions/191

Now there have been some discussions around to mitigate these things which might have gone side ways like https://npm.community/t/blacklist-entire-packages/9659/4 and https://github.com/npm/feedback/discussions/272. Of course there might be tools which you can use, such as running a commercial npm registry in proxy mode with blacklisting support. But what are the basic features you have as a developer that can be use to mitigate these things ?

This is likely the issue as npm 7 auto installs peer dependencies, which will fail on conflicting dependents.

During my research for this post, I discovered main-thread-scheduling, a JavaScript task scheduler developed by Antonio Stoilkov that focuses on helping you improve perceived page performance, and therefore, your INP scores. It uses isInputPending() if available, but provides scheduling functionality for all browsers. Personally, I haven’t had a use case to test this just yet, but at first glance, it’s currently maintained and could be worth a try.

It's done — https://github.com/astoilkov/main-thread-scheduling/commit/0.... Thanks.

A little thing but a great improvement. I'm now wondering why I did that.

Exclude bots. Bots activity should be excluded, otherwise, the search will probably get a lot worse. Also, it opens an opportunity for easy manipulation. For example, a version bump by a bot shouldn't count at all. Similar to how GitHub's repo contributions page work.

The library — https://github.com/astoilkov/main-thread-scheduling

For the past 11 months, I've been working on a very easy-to-use alternative to Web Workers. It's a way to schedule long-running, heavy tasks on the main thread. React has such implementation internally. Browsers are planning to add such functionality in the future.