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1878 :: Web based nimble search tool

• CaptainBland (orginal) [2015-12-16T01:26:24+01:00] view original

  Hi all! I've just gotten started looking at Nim and I think it's a really cool language - but I couldn't find a web inteface for the Nimble repo so I thought that'd make a good first project. Unfortunately, all the code I've written so far has been in JavaScript! (although I did write a very minimal server using Jester - it worked but turned out to be unnecessary for the features I'd implemented) You can have a look at what I've got so far here:

  http://nimble-explorer.com/

  I'll stick the code in a github repo soon. I pretty much just hacked this together last night and set up apache this evening and now I want to go to bed.

  Let me know if you think this is useful or not. Thanks!

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• jangko (orginal) [2015-12-16T02:16:13+01:00] view original

  excellent, very good. perhaps the blue tags button should be clickable?

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• jboy (orginal) [2015-12-16T06:49:45+01:00] view original

  Hi @CaptainBland: Yes, very useful idea, thanks!

  I agree with @jangko that the blue tags should be clickable links that filter by matches for that tag only.

  Unfortunately, I think there are a few bugs in your search ranking & cut-off algorithms?

  • I search for python.
    • The first 4 results: pymod :) , struct, pythonpathlib, python.
    • The first 10 results all mention Python in the description.
    • But result 11, commandeer, has no mention of Python anywhere in its name, its description or any of its Nimble metadata.
    • And commandeer appears in the results before NimBorg ("High-level and low-level interfaces to python and lua") or strfmt ("A string formatting library inspired by Python's format.")
    • And then there are dozens (hundreds?) of results after that, which have nothing to do with Python.

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• sepisoad (orginal) [2015-12-16T12:20:26+01:00] view original

  nice work, but the wep app doesn't work for me, the Go! button is clickable but no result is returned.

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• CaptainBland (orginal) [2015-12-19T23:19:30+01:00] view original

  Thanks for all of your feedback! I'm glad you think it's useful.

  I've made some improvements today including:

  • there is now a simple timer based mechanism for user feedback if the page fails to load properly
  • the page is now served by a Jester server behind Apache (admittedly Jester just does a redirect to a static page for the time being which is not ideal but it's all in the name of progress!)
  • browser compatibility has been improved by using keydown and click events rather than catching the form submit event
  • page is now mobile friendly (at least as far as google can tell! :P)

  There is now a github page at https://github.com/CaptainBland/nimble-explorer

  Next thing on my priority list is to fix the search

  Edit: Fixed the search, you can now include the field you wish to search for with the colon operator; e.g. license:gplv3 will show only packages licensed that way.

  Tags are now clickable, too.

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• jboy (orginal) [2015-12-29T14:56:18+01:00] view original

  Hi @CaptainBland: Great improvements, thanks! The colon operator search is useful and the page looks good & works well on my phone.

  Do you have any further improvements planned?

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• CaptainBland (orginal) [2015-12-29T18:49:09+01:00] view original

  Thanks for your feedback! Some ideas I have for the site include:

  • integration with github - so for instance users should be able to see how many stars a project has and be able to sort their results by that, be able to star projects from nimble-explorer and stuff like that.
  • A package comparison view - i.e. see your search results in a side-by-side table for easier comparison.
  • I'd like to provide some tools to ease the use of nimble even further - for instance providing lines that you can just copy and paste into your .nimble file when you're configuring a project.
  • Proper project pages similar to what they have for npmjs.com (e.g. with contributors, the README and whatever stats I can gather)

  These aren't in any particular order of priority so they'll probably get done as inspiration strikes me, but let me know if there are any features you're particularly interested in.

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