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Read the dependency graph backwards.

Registries answer what a package needs. Almost nothing answers who needs it — npm publishes a dependents count with no list behind it, and the count is dominated by abandoned scaffolding. These are the manifests of 417 prominent projects, read every day and turned around.

1816Packages imported more than once
417Manifests read

Most depended upon

Counted across the manifests of 417 repositories chosen by hand for this watchlist. It is not a survey of any registry and the number is not npm’s dependents count — it is how many of these particular projects import the package, which is a smaller and more specific claim. Packages imported by only one project are left out; one is not a finding.

Most depended upon, within this corpus
Package Projects here that import it Which
golang.org/x/sys 56 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, charmbracelet/bubbletea, charmbracelet/gum and 50 more
golang.org/x/text 54 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, charmbracelet/gum, cli/cli and 48 more
github.com/stretchr/testify 49 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, charmbracelet/gum, cli/cli and 43 more
golang.org/x/net 49 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, charmbracelet/gum, cli/cli and 43 more
golang.org/x/crypto 48 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 42 more
golang.org/x/sync 47 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, charmbracelet/bubbletea, charmbracelet/gum and 41 more
github.com/google/uuid 46 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 40 more
google.golang.org/protobuf 45 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 39 more
github.com/mattn/go-isatty 43 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 37 more
github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 42 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 36 more
github.com/davecgh/go-spew 42 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, containerd/containerd and 36 more
github.com/go-logr/logr 41 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 35 more
github.com/go-logr/stdr 41 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 35 more
github.com/klauspost/compress 41 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 35 more
go.opentelemetry.io/otel 41 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 35 more
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric 41 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 35 more
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace 41 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 35 more
golang.org/x/mod 41 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 35 more
golang.org/x/time 41 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, containerd/containerd and 35 more
google.golang.org/grpc 41 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 35 more
golang.org/x/tools 40 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 34 more
gopkg.in/yaml.v3 40 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 34 more
github.com/beorn7/perks 39 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 33 more
github.com/mattn/go-colorable 39 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 33 more
github.com/prometheus/client-golang 39 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 33 more
github.com/prometheus/client-model 39 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 33 more
github.com/prometheus/common 39 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 33 more
github.com/prometheus/procfs 39 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 33 more
go.opentelemetry.io/auto/sdk 39 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 33 more
google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc 39 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 33 more
github.com/pmezard/go-difflib 38 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 32 more
golang.org/x/term 38 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, containerd/containerd and 32 more
github.com/pkg/errors 37 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 31 more
golang.org/x/exp 37 OffchainLabs/nitro, caddyserver/caddy, charmbracelet/gum, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 31 more
google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api 37 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 31 more
github.com/google/go-cmp 35 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, containerd/containerd and 29 more
github.com/munnerz/goautoneg 35 argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cometbft/cometbft, containerd/containerd, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 29 more
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk 35 argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, containerd/containerd, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 29 more
github.com/fatih/color 34 argoproj/argo-cd, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, cosmos/cosmos-sdk, cosmos/ibc-go, ent/ent and 28 more
github.com/golang/protobuf 33 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 27 more
github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/v2 33 argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, containerd/containerd, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 27 more
github.com/spf13/pflag 33 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 27 more
github.com/mattn/go-runewidth 32 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, charmbracelet/bubbletea, charmbracelet/gum, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach and 26 more
github.com/felixge/httpsnoop 31 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, containerd/containerd, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 25 more
github.com/gorilla/websocket 31 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, containerd/containerd and 25 more
github.com/sirupsen/logrus 31 argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, containerd/containerd and 25 more
github.com/dustin/go-humanize 30 argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, charmbracelet/gum, cli/cli, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft and 24 more
github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify 30 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, containerd/containerd, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 24 more
github.com/gogo/protobuf 30 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, beego/beego, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 24 more
github.com/microsoft/go-winio 30 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, containerd/containerd, cosmos/ibc-go and 24 more
go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp 30 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, containerd/containerd, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 24 more
go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp 30 argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, containerd/containerd, cosmos/cosmos-sdk, cosmos/ibc-go and 24 more
go.yaml.in/yaml/v3 30 argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, cometbft/cometbft, containerd/containerd, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 24 more
golang.org/x/oauth2 30 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, containerd/containerd, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 24 more
github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v5 29 argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cli/cli, containerd/containerd, cosmos/cosmos-sdk, cosmos/ibc-go and 23 more
go.uber.org/multierr 29 beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, cosmos/cosmos-sdk, cosmos/ibc-go and 23 more
go.uber.org/zap 29 beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, cosmos/cosmos-sdk, cosmos/ibc-go and 23 more
github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2 28 OffchainLabs/nitro, argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 22 more
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace 28 argoproj/argo-cd, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, containerd/containerd, cosmos/cosmos-sdk, cosmos/ibc-go and 22 more
github.com/golang/snappy 27 OffchainLabs/nitro, beego/beego, caddyserver/caddy, cockroachdb/cockroach, cometbft/cometbft, cosmos/cosmos-sdk and 21 more