[jackconsidine]

I use this a lot. I find it interesting to compare trajectories of similar projects. it's often hard to predict the popularity (or at least star count) of a library. Case in point, back when Bootstrap was in vogue I always found the Vue.js version of far superior to the react-strap (and react-bootstrap) in terms of API, documentation, and support. Yet bootstrap-vue never came that close to catching it's React counterparts in stars.

To play devil's advocate to those who thumb their noses at GH stars, I've found this metric to be a helpful proxy in my career when choosing libraries.