Sign in Help Package scores & pub points NOTE: The Pub scoring model evolves over time, and is likely to be extended with additional checks in the future. For each package, this site displays three scoring dimensions. These are displayed in search results, in the sidebar on individual package pages, and in full detail in the scoring report on the 'Scores' tag of an individual package. The three dimensions are: Likes: A measure of how many developers have liked a package. This provides a raw measure of the overall sentiment of a package from peer developers. Pub Points: A new measure of quality. This includes several dimensions of quality such as code style, platform support, and maintainability. More about this below. Popularity: A measure of how many developers use a package, providing insight into what other developers are using. Likes Likes offer a measure of how many developers have liked a package. To like a package, locate the thumbs up button located in the upper-right corner of a package page. To view packages you have liked, use the My pub.dev > My liked packages menu option. Popularity Popularity measures the number of apps that depend on a package over the past 60 days. We show this on a normalized scale from 100% (the most used package) to 0% (the least used package), but are investigating if we can provide absolute usage counts in a future version. Although this score is based on actual download counts, it compensates for automated tools such as continuous builds that fetch the package on each change request. Pub Points Pub points is pub.dev's measure of quality. Pub points are awarded in five categories: Follow Dart file conventions Dart packages are expected to follow certain file conventions for how to organize a package. Most importantly make sure to: Provide a pubspec.yaml file. Ensure all Urls are valid and use a secure https: scheme. Provide a LICENSE file, preferably using an an OSI-approved license. Provide a README.md file describing the changes in each version of the package. Provide a CHANGELOG.md file describing the changes in each version of the package. Make sure to follow the guidelines for how to format headings and versions so that these can be rendered correctly on pub.dev. Provide documentation This category measures if a package has documentation in two areas: The package has an illustrative code example. See the layout documentation for details about where to place this example. At least 20% of the public API members contain API documentation. Support multiple platforms Packages are encouraged to support multiple platforms, to enable app developers to support a wide variety of platforms for their apps. This includes Dart's native and web platforms, and Flutter's mobile, web, and desktop targets. Pub.dev uses two different algorithms for determining which platforms are supported: Flutter packages: For packages that depend on the Flutter SDK, platform support is determined by looking at the platforms tag in the pubspec.yaml file. Dart packages: For packages that depend on just the Dart SDK, platform support is inferred by looking at the imports of Dart core libraries; the majority of these are multi-platform, but as listed a few support just the Dart native or Dart web platforms. If you need to import different libraries for specific platforms (e.g. on the web vs on devices), you can use Dart's conditional imports. Pass static analysis Static analysis is used to determine of the package contains any errors, warnings, and lints (code style issues). To validate a package prior to publishing, run dart analyze (Dart SDK) / flutter analyze (Flutter SDK), and fix the items it returns. For code style, make sure to familiarize yourself with the Dart style guide. Use analysis_options.yaml to specify further linter rules, enable default rules Google uses, and make sure you fix all warnings and errors before publishing. Here's an example analysis_options.yaml: # Defines a default set of lint rules enforced for # projects at Google. For details and rationale, # see https://github.com/dart-lang/pedantic#enabled-lints. include: package:pedantic/analysis_options.yaml # For lint rules and documentation, see http://dart-lang.github.io/linter/lints. # Uncomment to specify additional rules. # linter: # rules: # - camel_case_types # analyzer: # exclude: # - path/to/excluded/files/** Support up-to-date dependencies This category measures if a package has up-to-date dependencies in three areas: Works with the latest stable Dart SDK. Works with the latest stable Flutter SDK (if applicable). Works with the latest versions of all dependencies. To determine if your package supports the latest versions of dependencies prior to publishing, run the pub outdated command (Dart SDK) or flutter pub outdated command (Flutter SDK). Calculating pub points prior to publishing The pub.dev site uses the analysis tool pana to calculate pub points. This is run automatically on the pub.dev site whenever you publish a new package, or a new version of an existing package. You can view your pub points report to get suggestions before publishing, by running pana locally: When run pana will make modifications to the package, so start by making a copy of the directory holding your package: cp ~/dev/mypkg ~/tmp/mypkg Make sure you have the latest pana tool: pub global activate pana (pana changes frequently, so run this again frequently to update the pana tool) Run pana on the copy we made earlier: pub global run pana ~/tmp/mypkg Dart languagePolicyTermsAPI TermsSecurityPrivacyHelp