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lorenzopalaia

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lorenzopalaia··on Show HN: StackHound - Stop guessing repo's tech stack, analyze it in seconds
Do you mean in the project readme description? I'm talking about programming languages that are returned by the github API for a specific repo.

For example in my portfolio site I had to show the technologies used in my projects but for a nextjs project the github API returned only typescript and css while I used react, tailwind, ...

lorenzopalaia··on Show HN: StackHound - Stop guessing repo's tech stack, analyze it in seconds
For now the strategy is to check the manifests in the root of the project without fetching to the github API. Alternatively you can check recursively and search for manifests and other files also via API but you lose the speed of response. It is a first draft and above all an open source project and I would like someone to contribute.

Thanks for the feedback on the website. The API is intended as a core product, to help developers who integrate the github API to get programming languages from a repo.