add usage trend

[cwtuan]

I'm an active user of sequelize and I'm really impressed with its capabilities. As sequelize's popularity has grown significantly in recent years, I believe it would be helpful to include a resource in the README to assist new users who are choosing an nodejs ORM solution.

I believe this can provide value to new users and the sequelize community. Thank you for your consideration

[WikiRik]

Thanks for this PR! Starting with v7, we release new versions under @sequelize/core. Is there a way of combining those usages in one graph to display on the page?

[cwtuan]

@WikiRik do you mean something like this?

[ephys]

@cwtuan I think @WikiRik means adding @sequelize/core to the list (the others are not as important, core is the only one that is mandatory)

Though I don't think they can be merged, so the graph would look like this:

[cwtuan]

Thanks for the suggestion!

Based on your feedback, I separated the download trends for sequelize@6 and sequelize@7 into two individual charts instead of combining them into one. The main reason is that, while the usage of sequelize@7 has indeed grown rapidly over the past one year, it is still relatively lower compared to sequelize@6. Combining the two trends in a single chart might create a misleading impression that sequelize@7 has almost no usage.

By presenting these two charts separately, users can clearly observe the significant growth in sequelize@7 usage over the past year. This trend also reflects the ongoing migration of existing users to sequelize@7.

Additionally, I’m the main maintainer of npm-compare.com. If you have any other feature requests or needs, I’d be happy to implement them.

Finally, I also want to express my gratitude to you guys for the effort in developing sequelize@7.

Here is preview:

[ephys]

This looks really nice! Thank you 🥰

I’m the main maintainer of npm-compare.com

Oh! I didn't know. npm-compare looks great. It was nice to see that Sequelize is still increasing in use

I think this would be better suited for the homepage than the guide & tutorial index. I'll see if I can add it there

Edit: This is what it could look like - #772

[cwtuan]

I think this is an awesome idea! Putting the charts on the homepage is a great way to let more people know that Sequelize is still growing fast. As a Sequelize user, I’m really happy I could help contribute to this.

Since there’s a new implementation now, I’ve closed my PR. Thanks again for all the effort you’ve put into this!