From this reddit thread [0] -<p>> Most likely better bot protection, almost all of npm is currently scrapped to teach ai bots coding<p>[0]: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/16mna5z/whats_going_on_in_the_last_week_that_has_caused_a/k195ovg/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/16mna5z/whats_...</a>
The API for downloads stats across the whole registry show zero for a few days:<p><a href="https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2023-09-10:2023-09-21/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2023-09-10:2023-09-21/</a><p>I wrote to NPM support on 2023-09-15 when it got temporarily fixed over the weekend, then crashed again earlier this week. Their response:<p>> Yes, we also see the zero download count on different packages. This issue remains under investigation. We will let you know once we have an update.<p>Not much of an answer..
homie, this is just what these graphs look like in general. chill.<p>go click on any package with substantial downloads. svelte is the same way, the downtick is just less visible because of a weirdly massive spike in their downloads.
Okay another update: <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/express" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.npmjs.com/package/express</a><p>Express is also down. Can anyone explain what's going on? Are people really moving to Astro, Bun, Svelte? Or NPM is behaving weirdly?
I noticed the same for Nest.js yesterday. I think NPM might have changed the way the calculate their stats (maybe excluding automated installs or similar)? Or it might just be a glitch. I'm sure somebody will know details and clarify.
I think that more and more people are moving towards the good old days of PHP and server-rendered HTML. The smartest devs, believe me, have already started or finished their migration across, and the benefits are immeasurable.
Popular frontend framework react sees a dip in NPM downloads. And I just saw someone asking if Svelte is a good scalable frontend framework option.<p>I think, people are moving towards newer frameworks more and more. Also, we had Bun 1.0 release coming up. I don't know what is going on. Any thoughts?