npm package discovery and stats viewer.

Discover Tips

  • General search

    [free text search, go nuts!]

  • Package details

    pkg:[package-name]

  • User packages

    @[username]

Sponsor

Optimize Toolset

I’ve always been into building performant and accessible sites, but lately I’ve been taking it extremely seriously. So much so that I’ve been building a tool to help me optimize and monitor the sites that I build to make sure that I’m making an attempt to offer the best experience to those who visit them. If you’re into performant, accessible and SEO friendly sites, you might like it too! You can check it out at Optimize Toolset.

About

Hi, 👋, I’m Ryan Hefner  and I built this site for me, and you! The goal of this site was to provide an easy way for me to check the stats on my npm packages, both for prioritizing issues and updates, and to give me a little kick in the pants to keep up on stuff.

As I was building it, I realized that I was actually using the tool to build the tool, and figured I might as well put this out there and hopefully others will find it to be a fast and useful way to search and browse npm packages as I have.

If you’re interested in other things I’m working on, follow me on Twitter or check out the open source projects I’ve been publishing on GitHub.

I am also working on a Twitter bot for this site to tweet the most popular, newest, random packages from npm. Please follow that account now and it will start sending out packages soon–ish.

Open Software & Tools

This site wouldn’t be possible without the immense generosity and tireless efforts from the people who make contributions to the world and share their work via open source initiatives. Thank you 🙏

© 2026 – Pkg Stats / Ryan Hefner

motd-forge

v0.1.1

Published

Generate a randomized login banner (MOTD) with system stats and a quote.

Vulnerabilities

Powered byPowered by Snyk
  • 0High
  • 0Medium
  • 0Low

Links

Git

Maintainers

zkmzkm

Keywords

motdbannerclihomelabsysadminlogin

Readme

motd-forge

npm version CI codecov License: MIT

Generate a randomized login banner (MOTD) for your servers: a title (rendered big via figlet if it's installed, plain text otherwise), current uptime, disk and memory usage, and a random quote.

Node port of the motd_forge Ruby gem.

Installation

$ npm install -g motd-forge

Usage

$ motd-forge
$ motd-forge --name mybox
$ motd-forge --quote-file ~/.motd-quotes.txt
$ motd-forge --no-quote

Run motd-forge --help for the full list of options.

Config file

Settings can also live in ~/.motd-forge.yml (or a path passed via --config):

title: mybox
quote_file: ~/.motd-quotes.txt

CLI flags take precedence over the config file.

Wiring it into a login banner

Add a call to motd-forge from /etc/profile.d/motd-forge.sh (or your shell's rc file) so it prints on every SSH login:

#!/bin/sh
motd-forge

Development

$ yarn install
$ yarn test              # run the test suite
$ node bin/motd-forge.js   # run the CLI directly from source

License

MIT