Show HN: Resource Index – FOSS Git Repository and NPM Package Index
res-index.hkit.ccResource Index (res-index) is a searchable index for development resources, including github repo and npm packages.
Why yet another index?
In short, the search functionality on google and github are unsatisfied. This project aim to build a better alternative and potentially improve google's search result.
What's the actual problem I'm facing?
Sometime I want to search for a npm package but google cannot return that result even after I added "npm", "github", or even the combination of exact author username and package name.
Similarly, it's sometime hopeless to search for a non-popular package by name on github if you cannot recall the author's username.
Sometime google can not show the corresponding npm page but instead shows it on "socket.dev" or "snyk.io".
Pasting the exact npm url in subsequence search doesn't seem effective at hinting google to index the pages.
This project aim to actively index some github repositories and npm packages to enable more inclusive searching.
In addition, this project try be SEO-friendly. Hopefully, it can improve google's search result overtime.
Source Code: https://github.com/beenotung/res-index
Comments
Very cool thing!
If I was to add something it looks really brutalist. On one hand, the buttons. Some parts looks news - like the menu button. It dooes't look good.
Secondly there is no about link. The page does not provide description. Github project provides.
I would also provide binary blobs of data as a release. We should provide not only open source, but also open data?
Thanks for the suggestions, I will add about page, and also provide JSON API.
There is no LICENSE file, but code is BSD-2-Clause according to package.json
You're right, the source code is open for reuse with BSD 2 Clause license, I've add the license file and mark in readme explicitly. Thanks for the reminding.