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NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

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Re: NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

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Post by jauntywundrkind »

hdjrudni wrote: post #3

But why? npmjs.com is not slow and not something I need to interact with very often. And npmjs.com is still the authority when it comes to publishing packages, no? So I'd still have to use it.

It sparks more joy than the old one and buddy, that's for frelling enough damn it. Whinge out!

Awful comment. Your comment is bad and should be ashamed.

Use it and disagree! Tell me it in fact does not spark more joy! This just seems pretty clear, ya'll.

It's just generally vastly nicer. I love that file exploration of packages doesn't feel like a last afterthought before leaving the solar system forever.

Re: NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

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Post by beart »

boltzmann64 wrote: post #29

I hate the trend of moving away from being able to search packages from the command line to searching inside a bloated web browser. It had a happened with PyPI. And now npm. Please stop this madness.

What has moved away? You can still use `npm search` just fine.

Re: NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

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Post by danielroe »

npmx maintainer here! a few answers to questions i see:

we haven’t launched yet! we’re building openly but aiming for march 3. as is par for the course, hn gets the scoop.

i made the first commit two weeks ago, so it’s very new. but we’ve had 900+ PRs and 170+ contributors in the last fortnight… because this is something we care about.

having said that, i’m taking notes about what is and isn’t intuitive

npmjs remains the source of truth for the registry, which is why we get our data from there

but along the way we add a lot of features, like: - claiming new packages from the ui - batch admin operations for your orgs, teams and packages - total install size, vulnerabilities and deprecations for your transitive dependencies - generated docs for packages - linkable package contents - and more

Re: NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

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Post by tcper »

danielroe wrote: post #33

npmx maintainer here! a few answers to questions i see: we haven’t launched yet! we’re building openly but aiming for march 3. as is par for the course, hn gets the scoop. i made the first commit two weeks ago, so it’s very new. but we’ve had 900+ PRs and 170+ contributors in the last fortnight… because this is something we care about. having said that, i’m taking notes about what is and isn’t intuitive npmjs remains…

Do you have your own dependency resolution algorithm? Can we have the most lightweight node_modules directory?

Re: NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

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Post by indemnity »

xhcuvuvyc wrote: post #27
hdjrudni wrote: post #3

But why? npmjs.com is not slow and not something I need to interact with very often. And npmjs.com is still the authority when it comes to publishing packages, no? So I'd still have to use it.

Because they wanted to and Claude didn't tell them not to. Why even ask questions like this at this point.

In the age of LLMs I think we are going to see a Cambrian explosion of software.

Me personally, I’m writing tools for myself wouldn’t have bothered with before due the the time investment needed.

Re: NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

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Post by freakynit »

tl2do wrote: post #26

The typeahead search speed is genuinely impressive. I was typing package names and the results were appearing before I'd finished the keystroke—that's the kind of responsiveness you usually only see with native applications. As someone who spent a year obsessing over performance in a .NET MAUI app (IMAP processing, background execution, API latency), I know how hard it is to shave milliseconds off search. The npm reg…

Whats even crazier is if you click on thr author link, there other packages are listed almost instantly. Crazy damn speed. Beautiful to look at too.

Re: NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

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Post by [deleted] »

tl2do wrote: post #26

The typeahead search speed is genuinely impressive. I was typing package names and the results were appearing before I'd finished the keystroke—that's the kind of responsiveness you usually only see with native applications. As someone who spent a year obsessing over performance in a .NET MAUI app (IMAP processing, background execution, API latency), I know how hard it is to shave milliseconds off search. The npm reg…

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Re: NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

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Post by danielroe »

tcper wrote: post #34
danielroe wrote: post #33

npmx maintainer here! a few answers to questions i see: we haven’t launched yet! we’re building openly but aiming for march 3. as is par for the course, hn gets the scoop. i made the first commit two weeks ago, so it’s very new. but we’ve had 900+ PRs and 170+ contributors in the last fortnight… because this is something we care about. having said that, i’m taking notes about what is and isn’t intuitive npmjs remains…

Do you have your own dependency resolution algorithm? Can we have the most lightweight node_modules directory?

we do have an algorithm to calculate total install size

it’s not _exactly_ the same as if you install with npm and check the size of your node_modules but it’s a pretty good proxy

having said that, there’s room to make it better

Re: NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

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Post by Mikhail_Edoshin »

boltzmann64 wrote: post #29

I hate the trend of moving away from being able to search packages from the command line to searching inside a bloated web browser. It had a happened with PyPI. And now npm. Please stop this madness.

Browsing is not search though. But I must say that modern browsing is not browsing either, it's search-centered. It would be great to be able to actually browse things like in a store or a library.
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