Drop Down for Advanced Package Searching

[confused-Techie]

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Summary

Include an advanced search drop down menu, that simply exposes the available query parameters when searching a package normally, allowing these features to be accessible via the frontend website as well

What benefits does this feature provide?

Additional control over searching for packages

Any alternatives?

Manually adding query parameters to your package search URL

Other examples:

No response

[Daeraxa]

Would we be looking at adding the same query logic to pulsar and ppm to keep the experience the same?

[confused-Techie]

Would we be looking at adding the same query logic to pulsar and ppm to keep the experience the same?

For the most part I believe that these other options are already supported within ppm and as such the editor, it's just they aren't exposed natively ( I think there's a lot of PPM assuming what's best.)

Now I would like to have these mirror each other as closely as possible of course, just to make it a consistent experience.

But to clarify when I say advanced searching I'm only talking about the filters and query parameter's that are already supported by the backend and were supported originally by Atom.io

For example:

• Filter Packages or Themes
• Sort the returned packages by Downloads or Stars or Date
• And so on...

Just to get that sort of thing into the frontend website

[zhaolinlau]

any update?

[confused-Techie]

@zhaolinlau There was some work quite some while ago on #77 to accomplish this. Although I never followed up with feedback on some stylistic choices.

And at this point there's even more that we would need to add.

Honestly trying to work out some design aspects on how we want this to work would be the next best step to resolving it.