alternative-packages-examples

redis -> ioredis

The following figure compares the over time centrality ranking of redis and ioredis.

the centrality of redis and ioredis

Pull request examples

The following are examples of pull requests that perform a dependency migration from redis to ioredis:

What is package centrality?

By definition, centrality is a measure of the prominence or importance of a node in a social network. In our context, the centrality allows us to rank the packages based on the popularity/importance of packages that depend on them. Specifically, we use the PageRank algorithm to evaluate the shift in their centrality over time. For more details read our research paper: Towards Using Package Centrality Trend to Identify Packages in Decline.