chai - dependency health snapshot - depmedic

chai v4.3.7

BDD/TDD assertion library for node.js and the browser. Test framework agnostic.

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84/100 depmedic health score
snapshot taken 2026-04-28T07:19:46.922Z

Score breakdown

Popularity71/100
Maintenance84/100
Quality89/100
Risk (penalty for deprecated)100/100

Snapshot

Weekly downloads
644.1K
Monthly downloads
24.4M
npm dependents
0
GitHub stars
7.8K
Open issues
95
License
MIT
TypeScript types
no
Maintainers (top 5)
keithamus, chai-bot, chaijs

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npx depmedic --severity=high    # CI-friendly: exits 1 on high+critical

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