All the npm registry metadata as an offline event stream.
See https://github.com/nice-registry/about#why
npm install all-the-packages --save
When you install this package, a postinstall
script downloads
the npm registry metadata to a local JSON file, which is about 540 MB.
To refresh the module once you've already installed it, just reinstall:
npm i all-the-packages@latest
This package provides a simple event emitter that emits two events:
package
and end
.
const registry = require('all-the-packages')
registry
.on('package', function (pkg) {
console.log(`${pkg.name} - ${pkg.description}\n`)
})
.on('end', function () {
// done
})
To get cleaner package data, use nice-package:
const registry = require('all-the-packages')
const NicePackage = require('nice-package')
const coolPackages = []
registry
.on('package', function (pkg) {
if (pkg.name.match('cool') || pkg.description.match('cool')) {
coolPackages.push(new NicePackage(pkg))
}
})
.on('end', function () {
// done
})
Streams are cool and all, but the main reason this module has a streaming
interface is RAM. It would be nice to just require
the module and have a
giant registry object to work with, but a 400 MB JSON file is too big to fit in
memory on most computers.
npm install
npm test
MIT
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