helmet - dependency health snapshot - depmedic

helmet v6.0.1

help secure Express/Connect apps with various HTTP headers

B
87/100 depmedic health score
snapshot taken 2026-04-28T07:20:39.457Z

Score breakdown

Popularity63/100
Maintenance100/100
Quality94/100
Risk (penalty for deprecated)100/100

Snapshot

Weekly downloads
421.8K
Monthly downloads
9.6M
npm dependents
0
GitHub stars
9.3K
Open issues
4
License
MIT
TypeScript types
no
Maintainers (top 5)
adam_baldwin, evanhahn

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depmedic health: 87/100 (B)

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# In your project that depends on helmet:
npm install helmet
npx depmedic                    # vulnerability triage on your install
npx depmedic --severity=high    # CI-friendly: exits 1 on high+critical

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