Add more filters and sorting options to the list

[jo-chemla]

Hey there,

First of all, really neat UI for the awesome-self-hosted data, impressive work! A welcome addition would be to add more filters/sort options on the list, like

• most popular repo over the past month/year (probably the increase of the count of github stars over the given period)
• filter by number of commit past year (only show active repos, or very-active ones like those with >N commits/year
• filter by number of stars, number of maintainers, languages, date of creation, etc.

An out-of-scope nice view could also be to show on a single page, the 3 most starred repos for each category, each on its own line.

[mkitzmann]

Hey @jo-chemla

Thank you for your suggestions! This would be great, I will go through each one seperately:

1. Most popular repo: This somewhat ties into https://github.com/mkitzmann/awwesome/issues/8, as we would have to request the stars of each repo for the last month/year. Sadly github currently does not provide a star count per timeframe at the moment, so each star date would be requested and then accumulated. Probably is quite time consuming.
2. filter by number of commits: This should be pretty straight forward since we already get the number of commits per month for the graph.
3. filter by number of stars: Also pretty simple if only the total is used, otherwise more complex as in point 1.
4. filter by number of maintainers: We are currently not getting this info, but should be part of the graphql schema.
5. filter by languages: I had trouble with languages (as in Javascript, C++), as the GraphQL did not seem to provide this info
6. filter by date of creation: That could be done, but we would need to create a range datepicker or find a suitable library
7. Highlight 3 most starred repos: Do you think this would show any more information than the usual card or additional things?

[jo-chemla]

Hey, Thanks for getting back so quickly and the detailed reply!

• Indeed I would have assumed Github would allow to count stargazers at different timestamps via their graphql endpoint, or at least that they would provide with these "last-month trend". Will follow the star-history thread for updates.
• Indeed most of the filters I mentioned are based on properties already aggregated for each repo (number of commits, stars, date-of-creation). Are you using a specific UI framework (asking for the daterange-picker).
• Understood for the languages not returned by the graphql endpoint, no worries this could be helpful at a later stage.

• And finally, indeed, the idea I had in mind was just simply displaying the usual cards, maybe 3 per category - interleaved with the title of the category before the corresponding most starred repo of that category.

  Hope this helps clarify the suggestion, don't hesitate if you need anything else!