revenant.
npm
100
ghost score
Departed
✝ archived⚠ deprecated

npm package memorial

ℹ︎ How to read this score
Signals, not verdicts. A ghost score (0–100) estimates the probability that a repository will go 12 months without a non-bot commit, become archived, or be deprecated. A high score is a prompt to check your dependency health — never an accusation against its maintainers.

left-pad

“A humble utility that served the ecosystem with distinction for many years. Its purpose has been gracefully integrated into the language itself.”

epitaph by gemma-aistudio/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it · model heuristic-v1 · signals, not verdicts · snapshot from 2026-10-29

Last words: “Merge pull request #64 from lexjacobs/master”

Vital signs

hover or focus any vital for threshold guidance
commit pulse (26 wks)
flatlined

Weekly commit cadence over the last 6 months; flatlined means 0 recent commits.

last commit
7.6 years ago

Threshold: >365 days without a commit strongly elevates ghost risk.

release gap
8.6 years

Threshold: >365 days since the latest registry release.

bus factor
not enough data

Share of commits by the single top author; >=80% means reliance on one person.

issue close rate
not enough data

Share of issues closed over the past year; <25% can signal backlog pressure.

weekly downloads
2,811,194

Recent weekly downloads from the package registry.

dependents
1,195,353

Public repositories or packages that depend on this project.

years active
13 years

Time elapsed since the package's first recorded release.

What pushed this score up or down

Transparent signal attribution — positive points increase ghost risk, green negative points reflect active mitigations.

model: heuristic-v1
  • Repository archived (read-only)
    +70 pts
  • Registry deprecation flag
    +65 pts
  • Time since last commit
    +40 pts
  • Time since last release
    +15 pts

Cause of death

Officially Deprecated

The maintainers published a formal registry deprecation notice guiding users toward newer alternatives.

  1. #1 · RegistryOfficially deprecated

    use String.prototype.padStart()

Living successors

Visit the repository (stevemao/left-pad) →

Día de los Muertos · Altar of Remembrance

Ofrenda

Every candle represents a person who gave time to left-pad. In the Día de los Muertos tradition, an ofrenda welcomes back the memory of those who came before — honoring the hands that built the software we rely on.

Upper tier · Lead stewards
  1. @stevemao30 commits
  2. @camwest7 commits
Middle tier · Core contributors
  1. @spectejb5 commits
  2. @zehua4 commits
  3. @dubzzz2 commits
  4. @100Errors1 commits
Lower tier · Community builders
  1. @lexjacobs1 commits
  2. @benjamingr1 commits
  3. @haoel1 commits
  4. @kirushyk1 commits
It gave the world
2,811,194 downloads/week
Depended on by
1,195,353 public repos
Years of service
13 years

Hold a seance

The spirit of left-pad answers strictly from its own records — README, releases, and issues. It never impersonates a maintainer and says “I don't remember that” when evidence is missing.

The candles are lit. Pick a question above or ask what left-pad did, how to migrate away, or how it ended.

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