Have you looked at http://toolbox.no.de/
there is also http://eirikb.github.com/nipster/ On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 6:15:38 AM UTC-7, Jeff Kunkle wrote: > > Having used node steadily for the past six months, one of the biggest > problems I have is finding quality packages. It's easy to simply find > packages for a particular task, but determining which are well written, > performant, and carefully maintained is not straightforward. And somewhat > related, as a developer of several open source packages I'm often left > wondering if anyone is actually using them. How do I decide which packages > to spend time on without knowing which are most used, if at all? I realize > I can look to see what is most depended upon at search.npmjs.org but > that's only a partial picture. Packages that are more likely to be > leveraged in end-user applications are underrepresented, if they even > appear there at all. > > Would there be any community interest in developing a basic package usage > tracking capability? Maybe something like a simple package/file that can be > included in a package to count each time the package is installed or > required and report the results back to a central website on some interval. > Such a basic capability would be incredibly valuable to developers and > users. Users can then quickly determine which packages are well used/tested > and developers get to see which of their projects are actually being used. > I can imagine a whole host of other useful capabilities like collecting > metrics on API usage for help in understanding the potential impact of an > API change, but all of it would be secondary to a basic usage counting > ability. > > I'm sure there will be privacy concerns, but I think we can work to > address them if there's enough interest in such a capability. I'm more than > willing to have those discussions and work on a solution if people think > it's worthwhile. > -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
