yargs - dependency health snapshot - depmedic

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yargs v17.6.2

yargs the modern, pirate-themed, successor to optimist.

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85/100 depmedic health score
snapshot taken 2026-04-28T07:19:57.224Z

Score breakdown

Popularity88/100
Maintenance67/100
Quality94/100
Risk (penalty for deprecated)100/100

Snapshot

Weekly downloads
0
Monthly downloads
316M
npm dependents
0
GitHub stars
10.1K
Open issues
342
License
MIT
TypeScript types
no
Maintainers (top 5)
bcoe, oss-bot

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npm install yargs
npx depmedic                    # vulnerability triage on your install
npx depmedic --severity=high    # CI-friendly: exits 1 on high+critical

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