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Package Health Score

95 / 100

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No known security issues
popularity
Popular
maintenance
Healthy
community
Active

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No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

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All Versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
2.2.1	\|	10/2024	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.1.10	\|	10/2024		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
1.9.4	\|	09/2024		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
0.46.21	\|	11/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
0.45.9	\|	06/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

Apache-2.0 OR MIT

Security Policy

Yes

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Popularity

Popular

Weekly Downloads (16,367)

GitHub Stars: 2.31K
Forks: 443
Contributors: 190

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package libp2p receives a total of 16,367 downloads a week. As such, we scored libp2p popularity level to be Popular.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package libp2p, we found that it has been starred 2,314 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Active

Readme.md: No
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 190
Funding: No

A good and healthy external contribution signal for libp2p project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

How about a good first contribution to this project? It seems that libp2p is missing a README file.

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 71
Open PR: 13
Last Release: 8 days ago
Last Commit: 7 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of libp2p based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that libp2p demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: not defined

Age: 9 years
Dependencies: 26 Direct
Versions: 948
Install Size: 882 kB
Dist-tags: 2
# of Files: 146
Maintainers: 5
TS Typings: Yes

libp2p has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

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libp2p / js-libp2p / examples / pnet-ipfs / index.js View on Github

const privateLibp2pBundle = require('./libp2p-bundle')
const { mkdirp } = require('./utils')

// Create two separate repo paths so we can run two nodes and check their output
const repo1 = path.resolve('./tmp', 'repo1', '.ipfs')
const repo2 = path.resolve('./tmp', 'repo2', '.ipfs')
mkdirp(repo1)
mkdirp(repo2)

// Create a buffer and write the swarm key to it
const swarmKey = Buffer.alloc(95)
writeKey(swarmKey)

// This key is for the `TASK` mentioned in the writeFileSync calls below
const otherSwarmKey = Buffer.alloc(95)
writeKey(otherSwarmKey)

// Add the swarm key to both repos
const swarmKey1Path = path.resolve(repo1, 'swarm.key')
const swarmKey2Path = path.resolve(repo2, 'swarm.key')
fs.writeFileSync(swarmKey1Path, swarmKey)
// TASK: switch the commented out line below so we're using a different key, to see the nodes fail to connect
fs.writeFileSync(swarmKey2Path, swarmKey)
// fs.writeFileSync(swarmKey2Path, otherSwarmKey)

// Create the first ipfs node
const node1 = new IPFS({
  repo: repo1,
  libp2p: privateLibp2pBundle(swarmKey1Path),
  config: {
    Addresses: {
      // Set the swarm address so we dont get port collision on the nodes

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FAQs

What is libp2p?

JavaScript implementation of libp2p, a modular peer to peer network stack. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for libp2p, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is libp2p popular?

The npm package libp2p receives a total of 16,367 weekly downloads. As such, libp2p popularity was classified as a popular. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is libp2p well maintained?

We found that libp2p demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 190 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is libp2p safe to use?

The npm package libp2p was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 5 November-2024, at 04:27 (UTC).

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JavaScript implementation of libp2p, a modular peer to peer network stack For more information about how to use this package see README

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