Standard way to find modules

[knownasilya]

If I publish a module, how will others find it and know that it's a breach module? If breach uses npm, is there a specific keyword that should be used?

[jedahan]

how does atom.io do it?

[naknut]

Thay have their own package manager, its called APM.

[jacobsmith]

I would love this as an option -- even just a central area on breach.cc where people could submit modules and then show download stats would be awesome!

[knownasilya]

Or even just a list of modules taken by keyword, like yeoman does. Pulled from npm or github.

[spolu]

So there's a parallel discussion on mod_strip I'm going to close the issue there.

[spolu]

This could be useful in the meantime: https://github.com/breach/breach_core/wiki/List-of-modules

Someone mentioned tagging on npm and searching by tag within Breach. That could be a good early solution?

[jedahan]

+1 on the tagging for now no need to implement yet another package manager especially if most modules are gonna be released via npm anyways...

[knownasilya]

@jedahan totally with you on this! Tired of all the package managers.. (component, bower, npm, jspm, apm, meteor, etc...)

[knownasilya]

@spolu would love for the breach site to be on github so that others could contribute.

[spolu]

@knownasilya it is. gh-pages branch

[spolu]

Anybody want to take a stance a building such a search engine within breach_core's module manager?

[knownasilya]

@spolu :+1:

[knownasilya]

Anybody want to take a stance a building such a search engine within breach_core's module manager?

@spolu will definitely have a look after work.

[spolu]

@knownasilya cool!

[knownasilya]

@spolu although, would love any direction/guidance as how to start. First time with breach.

[spolu]

Of course, and working on breach_core is slightly more difficult than working on a module... Feel free to ping me on IRC whenever you're ready!

[miketheprogrammer]

@spolu I would caution against having a module management system in core. While I hope this project gains amazing popularity it probably wont reach the levels of npm. However, if it should get crazy, decoupling the package manager from the core would prove difficult later on. It is better to start with it decoupled. Asking the user to download it, similar to mod_strip, when they first open it. Or just automatically downloading it anyway.

**When in doubt, Node Philosophy, Small tight core, large userland.

[spolu]

@miketheprogrammer Thanks. That makes sense!

[knownasilya]

@miketheprogrammer good insight! This will avoid having to push core updates when the module search needs updating..

[knownasilya]

What's a good name? mod_findmod?

[sbruchmann]

@knownasilya

Some random suggestions:

• mod_modsearch
• mod_modmngr
• mod_modfinder
• mod_modexplorer

[knownasilya]

Thanks @sbruchmann! I've started a repo here. It can always be renamed if need be.

[knownasilya]

What keyword should be searched, maybe not a keyword at all, just a dependency on breach_module? Should we only search npm? Or github as well (projects with a package.json)?

[spolu]

Let's start with npm search and see how it goes. People can always add github modules directly through their URL in the meantime.

I'm wondering if we should move the entire module manager there or just the discovery?

[miketheprogrammer]

Would recommend discovery and module manager be seperate. Module manager should be core but discovery should be interchangeable modules. On Jul 11, 2014 6:25 PM, "Stanislas Polu" notifications@github.com wrote:

Let's start with npm search and see how it goes. People can always add github modules directly through their URL in the meantime.

I'm wondering if we should move the entire module manager there or just the discovery?

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[jimmed]

I've forked @knownasilya 's repo and made an initial attempt to call npm search from inside the module. However, I've come up against a wall, and it's late at night so I'm leaving it for now. Some details of the problem are commented in index.js, but the best way to experience it is to install the module and see the output for yourselves ;)

[knownasilya]

@jimmed I installed it into my copy of breach, and don't even get a console log..

Get it now, using 'out', but yeah can't find what the issue is.. Maybe npm.load needs a different config.

@spolu is there a better way to debug modules, other then using 'out'?

[corysimmons]

+1million on some sort of Sublime Text package control replica.

[knownasilya]

@corysimmons In what sense? Could you expound just a bit about what you'd like to see.

[corysimmons]

Just make the install modules thing a fuzzy search

[knownasilya]

Development has been moved here and wiki is updated. Anyone looking to help should submit PRs there.

[spolu]

Awesome. Keeping the issue open for people to find it and get redirected to your repo.