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31 points by cztomsik 9y ago

cztomsik 9y ago
Very early (and bare-bone) version. You can search for "date", and then because there is a lot of matching results you can easily filter out pickers just by typing "date -picker". You can also do "data* (table|grid|datatable|datagrid)" and similar lucene queries Results are sorted by github stars (rounded), project activity, and latest release Activity is a sum of deltas between release dates. Gaps > 1 year are ignored so it does not favor "sleeper agents" I was using this myself for some time and because it already gives good results I've decided to go public and get some feedback :) Any comments are very welcome. Thx
- gruez 9y ago
  >Activity is a sum of deltas between release dates. Gaps > 1 year are ignored so it does not favor "sleeper agents" so a project with yearly releases has the same "activity" as weekly releases, if they have the same start date and lastest release date? that doesn't seem right.
  - cztomsik 9y ago
    Correct, including bugfixes. Usually, healthy projects do at least one minor/major/bugfix release every 6 months. Also, if you are really desperate, you can lower/remove any filters on the top and get all matching results
- orf 9y ago
  Interesting idea, I spotted a small issue. Search for `ericapi` and the nodejs/node repository turns up
  - cztomsik 9y ago
    There is a lot of packages referencing single github repo, I am trying to "dedupe" most of them but it's not perfect yet. Hopefully, it will get much better next week package ericapi references nodejs/node repo https://www.npmjs.com/package/ericapi https://www.npmjs.com/package/ericapi
- max23_ 9y ago
  Hi, I have a question regarding the "Releases" column. Take "boostrap" as an example, what does the "16x" value mean? I assumed it is the number of releases but checking its GitHub page shows otherwise. Nonetheless, nice job on listing down all the available JS libs.
  - cztomsik 9y ago
    I'm currently showing number of releases on npm. GH releases are on the list :) Thx and check it out from time to time I have some ideas to make it even better...
    - max23_ 9y ago
      Aha! I was making the assumption earlier as the link would lead you to the GitHub page. Keep it up, definitely will check it from time to time.
      - cztomsik 9y ago
        Thx :)
techman9 9y ago
I hate to ask this, but how is this fundamentally different from: https://www.npmjs.com/search https://www.npmjs.com/search?
- cztomsik 9y ago
  It gives (at least slightly) better results than existing search engines - for example http://li458-246.members.linode.com/#http http://li458-246.members.linode.com/#http https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=http&page=1&ranking=optimal https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=http&page=1&ranking=optimal Also, you can "filter out" some results which is something you can't do (yet) with npmjs.com - I search a lot this way (try something first then filter out what I dont care, etc.) Also, there is more info (stars, activity, latest release, ...) npm gives shows only name, description and current version number which was not enough for me
- vvoyer 9y ago
  Or from https://yarnpkg.com/en/packages?q=http&p=1 https://yarnpkg.com/en/packages?q=http&p=1?
- FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
  I hate to ask this, but have you actually used npmjs's search? It's not that useful and there is a lack of sorting/filtering options
  - cztomsik 9y ago
    Yep, the reason why I made this is that I've been wasting too much time with google, npmjs, npmsearch, nipster, ... Plain github search usually worked better, but even there I've usually had to open first two pages of projects just to see which ones are dead. So the idea is that this works for me and just maybe it could work for you too :)
redgetan 9y ago
I noticed some libraries are missing. For example, when I type multiplayer in the searchbox, libraries such as https://github.com/lance-gg/lance https://github.com/lance-gg/lance or https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest dont show up. Where are you pulling your sources from? Are you using a github API?
- cztomsik 9y ago
  Thx for trying out. lance is very new (you can lower "active" filter to 0.1 and it will show up) BrowserQuest does not refer to its github repo in package.json, so (at least for now) there is no easy way I could reach it. It neither defines any keywords nor description in package.json so it will not show up at the bottom either. But even if it had, you would have to lower or remove "latest" filter. Not to mention, the package itself does not even exist on npm so it's not easily installable. Is it widely used? Latest commit was 5 years ago, pull reqs are not merged, etc. BTW: latest reindex was done 2 weeks ago, so next time lance will probably show up by default. BTW2: I am starting with npm and then I try to find linked repositories so I can get stars -> only npm packages are searched
- cztomsik 9y ago
  BTW: lance-gg is now visible even with default filter

31 points by cztomsik 9y ago

Very early (and bare-bone) version. You can search for "date", and then because there is a lot of matching results you can easily filter out pickers just by typing "date -picker". You can also do "data* (table|grid|datatable|datagrid)" and similar lucene queries Results are sorted by github stars (rounded), project activity, and latest release Activity is a sum of deltas between release dates. Gaps > 1 year are ignored so it does not favor "sleeper agents" I was using this myself for some time and because it already gives good results I've decided to go public and get some feedback :) Any comments are very welcome. Thx

gruez 9y ago
>Activity is a sum of deltas between release dates. Gaps > 1 year are ignored so it does not favor "sleeper agents" so a project with yearly releases has the same "activity" as weekly releases, if they have the same start date and lastest release date? that doesn't seem right.
- cztomsik 9y ago
  Correct, including bugfixes. Usually, healthy projects do at least one minor/major/bugfix release every 6 months. Also, if you are really desperate, you can lower/remove any filters on the top and get all matching results
orf 9y ago
Interesting idea, I spotted a small issue. Search for `ericapi` and the nodejs/node repository turns up
- cztomsik 9y ago
  There is a lot of packages referencing single github repo, I am trying to "dedupe" most of them but it's not perfect yet. Hopefully, it will get much better next week package ericapi references nodejs/node repo https://www.npmjs.com/package/ericapi https://www.npmjs.com/package/ericapi
max23_ 9y ago
Hi, I have a question regarding the "Releases" column. Take "boostrap" as an example, what does the "16x" value mean? I assumed it is the number of releases but checking its GitHub page shows otherwise. Nonetheless, nice job on listing down all the available JS libs.
- cztomsik 9y ago
  I'm currently showing number of releases on npm. GH releases are on the list :) Thx and check it out from time to time I have some ideas to make it even better...
  - max23_ 9y ago
    Aha! I was making the assumption earlier as the link would lead you to the GitHub page. Keep it up, definitely will check it from time to time.
    - cztomsik 9y ago
      Thx :)

techman9 9y ago

I hate to ask this, but how is this fundamentally different from: https://www.npmjs.com/search https://www.npmjs.com/search?

cztomsik 9y ago
It gives (at least slightly) better results than existing search engines - for example http://li458-246.members.linode.com/#http http://li458-246.members.linode.com/#http https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=http&page=1&ranking=optimal https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=http&page=1&ranking=optimal Also, you can "filter out" some results which is something you can't do (yet) with npmjs.com - I search a lot this way (try something first then filter out what I dont care, etc.) Also, there is more info (stars, activity, latest release, ...) npm gives shows only name, description and current version number which was not enough for me
vvoyer 9y ago
Or from https://yarnpkg.com/en/packages?q=http&p=1 https://yarnpkg.com/en/packages?q=http&p=1?
FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
I hate to ask this, but have you actually used npmjs's search? It's not that useful and there is a lack of sorting/filtering options
- cztomsik 9y ago
  Yep, the reason why I made this is that I've been wasting too much time with google, npmjs, npmsearch, nipster, ... Plain github search usually worked better, but even there I've usually had to open first two pages of projects just to see which ones are dead. So the idea is that this works for me and just maybe it could work for you too :)

redgetan 9y ago

I noticed some libraries are missing. For example, when I type multiplayer in the searchbox, libraries such as https://github.com/lance-gg/lance https://github.com/lance-gg/lance or https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest dont show up. Where are you pulling your sources from? Are you using a github API?

cztomsik 9y ago
Thx for trying out. lance is very new (you can lower "active" filter to 0.1 and it will show up) BrowserQuest does not refer to its github repo in package.json, so (at least for now) there is no easy way I could reach it. It neither defines any keywords nor description in package.json so it will not show up at the bottom either. But even if it had, you would have to lower or remove "latest" filter. Not to mention, the package itself does not even exist on npm so it's not easily installable. Is it widely used? Latest commit was 5 years ago, pull reqs are not merged, etc. BTW: latest reindex was done 2 weeks ago, so next time lance will probably show up by default. BTW2: I am starting with npm and then I try to find linked repositories so I can get stars -> only npm packages are searched
cztomsik 9y ago
BTW: lance-gg is now visible even with default filter