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sc-service

v0.58.0 Growing

Substrate service. Starts a thread that spins up the network, client, and extrinsic pool. Manages communication between them.

GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Classpath-exception-2.0 Edition 2021

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 22d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 607 crates
  • โœ“Team maintained (2 owners)
  • !Heavy dependency tree (57 direct deps)

Security

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Downloads
795.3K
Dependents
607
Releases
66
Size
125KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

27.4K downloads in the last 30 days (914/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

607 crates depend on sc-service. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 670 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 6+ years old, sc-service hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

57 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include polkadot-sdk, sc-cli, frame-benchmarking-cli, sc-authority-discovery, polkadot-node-metrics. When high-quality crates choose sc-service, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 18/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 12/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 14/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 10/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
924/day avg+5%
05001K2K2K3K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.50.0
49%
v0.49.0
29%
v0.56.0
10%
v0.54.0
8%
v0.53.0
5%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["rocksdb"]

rocksdb*jemalloc-allocatorruntime-benchmarks

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
57
direct dependencies
Dependents
607
crates depend on sc-service