GitHub: We haven’t found any dependents for this repository yet

Question

I have seen the feature that show what package depend on a repository.

I have created this repository: https://github.com/bootstrap-styled/v4 and many dependency I create depend on it, just to name a few:

https://github.com/bootstrap-styled/ra-ui

Looking at the package.json, the dependency is used here: https://github.com/bootstrap-styled/ra-ui/blob/master/package.json#L291

This happen only on that repo and we found it weird, because this repo can detect with the same kind of setting https://github.com/bootstrap-styled/bootstrap-styled it's usage without hassle.

What are the criteria? When will the Used by badge appear on that Github page?

Best!

Why is the badge not displayed and how can I make the badge appear?

Answer 1

I couldn't find any documentation for this, but what I've observed is, whenever the dependency begins with an @, it comes up on the Dependency Graph of GitHub without a hyperlink to the repository, otherwise it comes up with a hyperlink to the repo.

If you see the dependencies in the Dependency Graph of the ra-ui repo, you would notice that @bootstrap-styled/v4 would come up without a hyperlink to the repo:

But other dependancies like below would come up with hyperlinks to their respective repos:

When the dependency comes up with a hyperlink to the repo in the Dependency Graph, the same is counted in the Used by feature of GitHub.

If you see the dependency bootstrap-styled is added too in the ra-ui repo, and the Used by feature in the bootstrap-styled repo is showing up fine.

So I believe the Dependency graph of GitHub is not getting a connection between the dependencies which begin with @ and their respective repositories on GitHub and hence not counting them in the Used by feature.

UPDATE:

This issue has been fixed by GitHub and the Used by count is now showing up for repos having scoped packages