Handling forked packages on NPM

biojs / biojs-backend

Backend repository for biojs.net website.

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Handling forked packages on NPM #14

Open Megh-Thakkar opened 6 years ago

Megh-Thakkar commented 6 years ago

Some NPM registry packages are those which are forked by users. For example, cytoscape has a fork by a user visallo,(@visallo/cytoscape). Since the Github URL registered in the NPM database points to the original cytoscape.js library, there is a clash when it comes to data from Github(stars, forks etc). How to handle this is an issue that needs to be tackled in the near future.

DennisSchwartz commented 5 years ago

I just re-read this. If they 'forked' it, shouldn't it also have a separate Github URL? That might just be an oversight we can raise as a bug with the maintainer.