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Show HN: Visualize Rust Crates Dependencies

• wjl 5y ago
  Nice work on this! The search is very snappy and the layout is quite pleasing. One thought: it's a little difficult for me to read the "DEV"/"OPTIONAL" dependency text on the side of the nodes; I wonder if some color-coding would help here?
  • csomar 5y ago
    > The search is very snappy It's running on Cloudflare workers. Some 500 servers I guess! It's kinda of an overkill for the use case but I did it as I was looking to explore their API. > I wonder if some color-coding would help here? tbh, I kept trying a few combinations and then gave up. Design is not my strongest skill.
• rl3 5y ago
  This is really cool. You might want to somehow cap the depth for crates that have an extreme amount of dependencies. Example (may freeze your browser): https://crates.live/wgpu/0.10.1 https://crates.live/wgpu/0.10.1
  • csomar 5y ago
    It's capped to 500 crates, but some crates seem to hang the browser before that. See https://crates.live/reqwest/0.11.4 https://crates.live/reqwest/0.11.4
• ccakes 5y ago
  Nice work! The ability to colour the boxes by license might be a nice touch Would be an easy visual way to identify dependencies with incompatible licenses