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Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by Der_Einzige » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:02 PM UTC

I wrote a tiny tool to calculate a "brightness" score for a repo, which looks at the total number of stars that the people who starred your repo have.

The idea being that people who starred your repo who themselves have tons of stars are likely "better" in that they are likely to be experienced, intelligent users, and not bots.

https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Bright

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by fuzzythinker » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:06 PM UTC

alcover wrote: post #29

I get many stars on my last project but no issues or PR. It feels quite lonely and, more importantly, I can't know if my work is going in a good direction. I think people mainly use stars as bookmark.

I think of stars as encouragement, so I give them when it has fewer than a few-k stars and is well maintained, or if not, to encourage it.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by jackconsidine » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:07 PM UTC

I use this a lot. I find it interesting to compare trajectories of similar projects. it's often hard to predict the popularity (or at least star count) of a library. Case in point, back when Bootstrap was in vogue I always found the Vue.js version of far superior to the react-strap (and react-bootstrap) in terms of API, documentation, and support. Yet bootstrap-vue never came that close to catching it's React counterparts in stars.

To play devil's advocate to those who thumb their noses at GH stars, I've found this metric to be a helpful proxy in my career when choosing libraries.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by loudthing » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:09 PM UTC

Github has always had a bad history graph. I've always wondered why we can't just have a live Github history graph like in Sourcetree.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:19 PM UTC

Raed667 wrote: post #11

For me, stars have an inverse correlation with actual usage. I'll star projects I want to look at some day, because they seem cool, like Svelte or Vite. But projects I work with daily, I don't need to star them to remember they exits, like React or Webpack.

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Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by liorgrossman » Sat, May 28, 2022, 10:07 PM UTC

Love the xkcd style chart!

We also show the GitHub star history, alongside npm download history, issue and PR stats on Openbase: https://openbase.com/js/react/insights

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by kortilla » Sat, May 28, 2022, 10:11 PM UTC

The_Colonel wrote: post #32

Raed667 wrote: post #11

For me, stars have an inverse correlation with actual usage. I'll star projects I want to look at some day, because they seem cool, like Svelte or Vite. But projects I work with daily, I don't need to star them to remember they exits, like React or Webpack.

For every professional React developer, there's probably ten people who consider React cool and something to learn in the future, while they haven't even heard about Svelte or Vite.

Doubtful anyone thinks react is cool at this point. It’s more of a thing you just need to use for your job. It’s like Java at this point.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by BonoboIO » Sat, May 28, 2022, 10:21 PM UTC

liorgrossman wrote: post #46

Love the xkcd style chart! We also show the GitHub star history, alongside npm download history, issue and PR stats on Openbase: https://openbase.com/js/react/insights

https://openbase.com/categories/rust/most-popular-rust-libra...

Does not work. Only JavaScript top list work for me.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by liorgrossman » Sat, May 28, 2022, 10:25 PM UTC

BonoboIO wrote: post #48

liorgrossman wrote: post #46

Love the xkcd style chart! We also show the GitHub star history, alongside npm download history, issue and PR stats on Openbase: https://openbase.com/js/react/insights

https://openbase.com/categories/rust/most-popular-rust-libra... Does not work. Only JavaScript top list work for me.

Thanks for the heads up! We'll take a look.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by yreg » Sat, May 28, 2022, 10:39 PM UTC

kortilla wrote: post #47

The_Colonel wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For every professional React developer, there's probably ten people who consider React cool and something to learn in the future, while they haven't even heard about Svelte or Vite.

Doubtful anyone thinks react is cool at this point. It’s more of a thing you just need to use for your job. It’s like Java at this point.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021:

- 69% of respondents love React, 31% dread React

- 25% of developers who are not using React would like to use it (1st place among web frameworks)

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021