Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Proposal: change the default provider from cndjs to an NPM-based provider

Open
#517 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the UI wizard's provider selection and the generation of the default libman.json file. Review the telemetry and provider reliability questions before choosing a default; done means an NPM-supporting provider is the default while Cdnjs remains supported.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Currently Cdnjs is the default provider in both the UI wizard and the default generated libman.json file. However, the Cdnjs catalog is a curated set of libraries; it does not include all libraries from NPM, and it does not include pre-release versions of well-known libraries.

Some feedback we have received indicates that users expect to find any NPM library in the default experience. These searches will fail against the Cdnjs catalog due to its selective curation.

The proposed change would make one of the other providers which does support NPM to be the default. Cdnjs will continue to be supported.

If we move forward with this, we should also consider:

  • Can we tell from telemetry which providers are being used today? Will this change better meet current usage trends, or deviate from them?
  • Can we determine reliability statistics for each provider? (Cdnjs was initially picked as a default because of unreliable downloads elsewhere)
Dominant language
C#
Stars
486
Forks
91
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from aspnet/LibraryManager

All issues in aspnet/LibraryManager

Similar issues

More C# issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.