Possible Resources

Below is a list of possible resources, similar in scope or possible integration points:

• Package for searching npm https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-search

• Alternative to npm search http://eirikb.github.io/nipster/

  • Seems like it's not working the two times I checked

• Alternative to npm search http://browsenpm.org/

  • Similar information to many of the projects here, lists dependencies, stars, contributors, license, etc.
  • Searching seems poor and strictly text based (exact match first)

• Alternative to npm search http://node-modules.com/

  • Allows for some level of "intelligent personalization" based on a Github login (implementation can be seen here), which in effect is the following skew:

	var SCORE_FOLLOWING_MAINTAINER = 500;
	var SCORE_FOLLOWING_DEPENDENT = 250;
	var SCORE_STARRED_MAINTAINER = 200;
	var SCORE_STARRED_DEPENDENT = 100;
	var SCORE_DEPENDENT = 2;
	var SCORE_STAR = 1;

• Alternative to npm search https://nodejsmodules.org/

  • opinionated "search" is more like a trend-list. Difficult to navigate and no obvious personalization available. Has some notion of "new" or "interesting" the workings of which are...unclear

• Complimentary service https://libraries.io/

  • A service that aggregates across multiple languages. To me, it looks to be of limited use because of the wide variety of projects that are returned (example: search "hapi" and get results for Python/Ruby).
  • Interesting/useful parts:
    • displays license type and stars up-front
    • lists dependencies
    • this level of information:

Project Statistics
SourceRank              6
Dependencies            3
Dependent projects      0
Dependent repositories  0
Total releases          9
Latest releases         15 days ago
First releases          27 days ago
Stars                   0
Forks                   0
Watchers                1
Contributors            1