Open samdenty opened 1 year ago
Hey @samdenty, sorry for late response 😅
Here are a few problems I see:
Overall I like your project but I think that results are not refined enough.
I consider creating more robust solution powered by community suggestions
Yeah some icons could do with custom picked ones instead. I was testing the water as I hadn't seen any project that scraped github repo icons automatically before and thought it would be a good idea. Scraping has worked pretty well because if you search on github-icons.com for a repo / package, you're bound to find something related.
It's got some users now around 700 daily, but i'd like to see it grow.
Maybe I should add a curating / icon suggestion thing, instead of relying on package authors to manually set the "icon": "./icon.png"
field in package json to use custom icons. I was picking between both ideas and thought it could be nicer to have a standard, but i guess some repos will never accept new contributions.
Regarding showing the user avatar on NPM icons, I did that as that's what github does on repos. I prioritise organization avatars over user ones, but maybe I should not display user ones at all when on an NPM package. Curious on your thoughts
Hi there 👋
I'm the creator of https://github-icons.com / https://github.com/samdenty/github-icons.
We provide a free-to-use API to retrieve icons for NPM packages. I think it'd be pretty cool if you integrated it with this project
The API is as simple as loading an image tag with
for example
https://github-icons.com/npm/react
This image can return a 404 if no icon is found. It can also take a while waiting for the GitHub API (second time is always instant), so on https://github-icons.com I do the following.
<img>
tag withopacity: 0
, andobject-fit: contain
(so it retains aspect ratio)src
to either a generic npm logo or not found icon