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Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by miketery »

Gigachad wrote: post #65
kortilla wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

HN is a bubble of negativity. I see juniors light up when seeing react and trying it out for the first time. And I don’t know anyone irl who dreads react.

Agreed, but people (read: I) do dread some of the critical tooling / configs around it (e.g. bundlers). Regardless its amazing how quickly you can spin up a feature rich app these days.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by codedoctor »

tianzhou wrote: post #63

I am the maintainer of star-history.com. Thanks for posting this on HN. Just to share a trick, you can also use markdown to embed a live star history chart to your GitHub README. e.g. ## Star History [![Star History Chart]( https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=bytebase/star-history... Instruction: https://star-history.com/#bytebase/star-history&Date Enjoy~

It looks really cool. A hand writing style... Do you plan adding new themes?

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by tianzhou »

codedoctor wrote: post #72
tianzhou wrote: post #63

I am the maintainer of star-history.com. Thanks for posting this on HN. Just to share a trick, you can also use markdown to embed a live star history chart to your GitHub README. e.g. ## Star History [![Star History Chart]( https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=bytebase/star-history... Instruction: https://star-history.com/#bytebase/star-history&Date Enjoy~

It looks really cool. A hand writing style... Do you plan adding new themes?

We like the current style and plan to keep it as is.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by alok-g »

tianzhou wrote: post #63

I am the maintainer of star-history.com. Thanks for posting this on HN. Just to share a trick, you can also use markdown to embed a live star history chart to your GitHub README. e.g. ## Star History [![Star History Chart]( https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=bytebase/star-history... Instruction: https://star-history.com/#bytebase/star-history&Date Enjoy~

Very cool. Thanks for making this.

Is there a way to move or remove the legend. It's coming on the top of the curve for my project [1]. I am guessing there would be more projects with such a profile.

[1] https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-...

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by yreg »

toastal wrote: post #66
MetaWhirledPeas wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yet it seems to be a popularity contest people care about for some reason Before you incorporate someone's Github library into your own project, you want to know some things. Is it secure? Is it well-maintained? Is there an active userbase to help with support? Stars are one indicator of this.

Hardly. I was on a project with a JS dependency with 6.5k stars and sponsors but it injected a remote script at runtime without consent. I'm also a part of niche community circles where a project would be lucky to break 50 stars despite having phenomenal value and quality. It really is purely a popularity contest and only that with a bias towards other languages and projects that are equally as popular.

an indicator is not a proof

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by flohofwoe »

viraptor wrote: post #7

Slightly related, but... what is it with stars? I've never starred a repo and don't understand why I would want to. Yet it seems to be a popularity contest people care about for some reason, even though it correlates strongly with forks/issues/prs so you get the same idea about usage from those. Does it go at all beyond a "like", or am I just too old to get it?

I use them mostly like bookmarks, a cool project I stumbled over and want to "pin" for the future.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by scaraffe »

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.

ben awad from youtube[1] has a slightly better solution for actual usage: stars/tags

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT6M_sqAuZo

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by recursive »

Gigachad wrote: post #65
kortilla wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

HN is a bubble of negativity. I see juniors light up when seeing react and trying it out for the first time. And I don’t know anyone irl who dreads react.

> And I don’t know anyone irl who dreads react.

There's not a lot of us, but we're definitely out here.

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