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referencing

v0.46.5 Growing

An implementation-agnostic JSON reference resolution library for Rust.

MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.83.0

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 12d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 197 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
21.7M
Dependents
197
Releases
57
Size
57KB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

2.3M downloads in the last 30 days (76.5K/day), up 27% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

197 crates depend on referencing. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 1+ years old, referencing hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include jsonschema, llguidance, schema-registry-client, jsonschema-cli, jacs. When high-quality crates choose referencing, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 18/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 7/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
74K/day avg-17%
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Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.45.0
38%
v0.45.1
19%
v0.46.4
17%
v0.44.1
14%
v0.46.5
12%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

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README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
16
direct dependencies
Dependents
197
crates depend on referencing