node package finder

Motivation

Nowadays, in node ecosystem it's not easy to find the packages we are looking for. For example, when a noder comes to npmjs.org or google.com, how do they find the best promise library? npf comes to help

Methodology

Besides keywords / description, we also compare

1. number of dependents
2. author (github repo stars, github followers)
3. TODO: rates of related stackoverflow / quora discussions

number of dependents

/package/:package/:author/ci

fetch node package dependents

author

searchHelper

API

search package

/package/:package

which returns a list of objects which possess name and score

lazy load all other meta info?

top10 package

route /package/top/:package

get top 10 search results on top of

test results

/package/:package/:author/ci

get travis-ci test results with following format

{
    success: <boolean>,
    time: <string of last build time>
}

TODO

1. normalize scores, especially downloads/stars/followers

appendix

1. irregular //github.com/{id}/{repo}.git