Increase the exposure of your open source project by using repos with a higher number of stars as dependencies?

Sep 24, 2023#Discovery210

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The person was surprised to find that 11 projects were dependent on the clean-code-javascript project. They discovered that these projects had a go.mod file that included clean-code-javascript, even though it didn't have any actual code. They speculated that this was a way to attract attention and increase the chances of accessing their own project from other sources. They jokingly referred to it as "open source rogue."

When I was looking at clean-code-javascript, I was surprised to find that there are actually 11 projects that depend on it. This is clearly just a markdown project, so what are these projects using it for?
I clicked on a few to take a look and found that they all have this go.mod file in their projects, which imports clean-code-javascript. Obviously, they are not actually using any code from it because there is no code in the clean-code-javascript repository. The only explanation I can think of is that this is a way to attract attention and increase the possibility of accessing their projects from elsewhere. I would call it "open source rogue" 😂