On and off over the last six months we've built a search engine for finding modules, http://node-modules.com. It uses several parameters and some cleverness to give you great results quickly.
While using it ourselves we have noticed a paradigm shift in the way we work, which has been really interesting. The last part of this post will go over that. Node-modules.com and what it does There are already two search engines in the node community (apart from npmjs.org), http://eirikb.github.com/nipster and http://nodetoolbox.com. However, node-modules.com have something new contribute with. We set out to give you the absolute most relevant results at the very top. Node-modules.com uses different parameters to rank all modules and give better results: * Name, keywords, and description of the module (cleverly done so that 'parse' and 'parsing' are alike) * Number of other modules dependant on this module * Number of stars on github * If you follow the author * If the module is used by an author you follow * If you have starred another module by the same author Some of these parameters require you to log in with github, but even without it you get great results. By starring more modules and following your favorite authors on github you'll improve your search results. That's about all there is to it. Why not try some of these: The top router modules, http://node-modules.com/search?q=router The top mongo modules, http://node-modules.com/search?q=mongo Or all the modules substack has created, http://node-modules.com/search?q=@substack Command-line version Of course there's also a cli tool for node-modules.com $ npm install -g node-modules $ node-modules search web framework A paradigm shift? But what was this with a paradigm shift? To avoid this post being too lengthy, and miss the point, we wrote it about on our blog, http://www.reddit.com/r/node_modules/comments/1msh9n/a_paradigm_shift/ Thoughts? Feedback is much appreciated, @node_modules or the blog, http://reddit.com/r/node_modules Pull requests accepted, http://github.com/mafintosh/node-modules // Mathias Buus, http://github.com/mafintosh // Tobias Baunbæk, http://github.com/freeall -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
