How do you find good packages for Vue?

So I recently started using vue after a short course, and I'm not really able to grasp the ecosystem. Coming from flutter there is pub.dev, a neat site with all sorts of packages. With vue I cannot seem to find any sort of centralized system. There is NPM but it literally contains every single javascript package for every single framework, I just find myself finding so many components last updated 4-6 years ago that don't work anymore and have to add "vue" to every search query. Even if I sort through NPM with the "maintenance" sort I still find 5yo stuff. There are tons of these half-sketchy sites with random collections of components but none of them seem particularly quality.

How do you deal with this? I refuse to believe such a popular framework doesn't have a decent solution for external packages. I've been trying to find a simple dropdown menu to import for hours now. Am I not understanding something?