A Longitudinal Study of Dependency Reclassifications in JavaScript Projects

Yuxin Liu,Cristian Bogdan,Benoit Baudry

arXiv · （2026）

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Modern software projects depend on third-party dependencies, whose declarations must be maintained as projects evolve. Prior work has focused on dependency version updates, while much less is known about how developers assign dependencies to different roles over time. In this paper, we investigate how developers of JavaScript projects reclassify their dependencies, including removal and role reassignment. Our analysis of 33,087 JavaScript projects with active dependency maintenance reveals that dependency reclassification is a prevalent maintenance activity, occurring in 79.1

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