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

It gives (at least slightly) better results than existing search engines - for example http://li458-246.members.linode.com/#http 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

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

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 :)

Or from https://yarnpkg.com/en/packages?q=http&p=1?

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

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.

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...

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.

Thx :)

>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.

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

Interesting idea, I spotted a small issue. Search for `ericapi` and the nodejs/node repository turns up

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

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

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

BTW: lance-gg is now visible even with default filter

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