The source is open. Please help. https://github.com/isaacs/npm-www
Moving to google was only a "mistake" if you'd prefer a search that literally does nothing whatsoever, except take the registry down every few days. The old search.npmjs.org site used a technique that was not scalable past a few thousand packages. At 12,000 packages, it finally was unable to keep up with the task of building the search index, and caused downtime and performance problems for the entire registry. Keeping it as long as we did, that's the real mistake. No one believes that the current search experience on the website is ideal. But it is what we have for now. Please help with it. As much as I'd love to spend every waking hour doing only this, I have many other tasks to attend to. In the meantime, the cli search is quite effective, and relatively fast apart from the initial download of the index. But even that will eventually fall over under the weight of Node's steadily rocket-like increase in popularity. The only solution is to develop a good server-side search solution that can be queried from the cli. Microsoft has been kind enough to provide me with a free token for the Bing API, so any solution that relies on that service would be pretty awesome, and very easy to deploy and manage. The source is open. Please help. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:09 PM, José F. Romaniello <jfromanie...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 It feels broken, but it will feel better if instead of redirecting to > google it embeds the result in the npm page... Like my static blog does: > > http://joseoncode.com/search/?q=Node > > Code > > https://github.com/jfromaniello/joseoncodecom/blob/master/search.html > > El martes, 25 de septiembre de 2012, Adam Crabtree escribió: > >> Niice. >> >> NPM search feels broken IMHO. Google search UI is awful in this case, esp. >> since most searches are looking for modules, not people, keywords, or >> "packages depending on", etc... and then typically my first course of action >> is not to read the Readme on npmjs.org, but to find the github repo and read >> it there where I can browse through the code easier. >> >> Cheers, >> Adam Crabtree >> >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:18 AM, samm <sam.miller...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Actually I just found you can go here: >>> http://eirikb.github.com/nipster/ >>> and type in, for example, irc, and then click the npm icon at the right >>> of the result line. >>> It will take you back to npm site with the npm install command for that >>> module. >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, September 23, 2012 8:59:39 AM UTC-4, samm wrote: >>>> >>>> I don't understand how to use this. >>>> I type in, for example, irc. But there is no search or go button >>>> anywhere. >>>> >>>> If I press enter it goes to a google search results page. >>>> I guess I have to use the command line to search. >>>> Why bother having the web page version then? >>> >>> -- >>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>> Posting guidelines: >>> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Better a little with righteousness >> than much gain with injustice. >> Proverbs 16:8 >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
