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Curated list of top generators #459

Open SBoudrias opened 9 years ago

SBoudrias commented 9 years ago

We often get comments about the fact there's too much choices of Yeoman generators. I think that is true, with >1500 generators, there's a lot of choices!

I was wondering if it would make sense for us to curate a list of top quality generators we know are maintained. Like on npm, we could curate a list of our top ~9 generators or something like that on yeoman.io frontpage.

Couples related questions:

ruyadorno commented 9 years ago

:+1: awesome idea

we should leave this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

ragingwind commented 9 years ago

NPM download count could be one of the option

arthurvr commented 9 years ago

NPM download count could be one of the option

We can take a look at the download count, but popularity shouldn't be our main consideration. IMHO we should focus on listing good generators, not popular ones. In the original comment in this issue: "top quality".

stefanbuck commented 9 years ago

we should focus on listing good generators, not popular ones.

Good point @arthurvr :+1:

sindresorhus commented 9 years ago

We can take a look at the download count, but popularity shouldn't be our main consideration. IMHO we should focus on listing good generators, not popular ones. In the original comment in this issue: "top quality".

:+1:

ragingwind commented 9 years ago

In my point of view, "Top quality" is related to popularity. I agree that popularity is not major option to criteria for selection. however, I think that we don't need to disregard popularity decisively. If there are good many generators in competition , we have to choose from one of them, popularity could be one of the option.

addyosmani commented 9 years ago

I'm :+1: on this idea, but we'll need come up with an agreed upon list of criteria. If we were looking at what we know to be up-to-date, well maintained etc. we could easily fall in the trap of just recommending generators we officially maintain. I imagine the goal of this is not that :)

SBoudrias commented 9 years ago

I think there's a couple factors we need to consider:

  1. Generator quality (is it using last versions, is it using good practices). How: review code
  2. Generator community (is there an active community offering support and is there a contributors team tackling issues raising up). How: review # of stars, # of downloads and the github pulse tab
  3. Diversity (it is important for us not to list 9 JS frontend framework. We want to showcase the diversity of the Yeoman generators ecosystem). How: Manually filtering if we have too many angular generators. Or maybe we could present platforms with Yeoman generators and bundle multiple generators under each platform/framework?
arthurvr commented 9 years ago

Those criteria seem like a really good start @SBoudrias. :+1:

zckrs commented 9 years ago

:+1: @SBoudrias work in progress ? Or I can try to contribute.

SBoudrias commented 9 years ago

I don't think anyone started to work on this. Any help is welcomed.

mischah commented 7 years ago

Possible addition to the good criterias of @SBoudrias

  1. Generator quality (is it using last versions, is it using good practices). How: review code
    • Does it have tests with a good coverage (> 95%?) running on an CI (and does it build)
    • Does it follow semver (Plus does it have any kind of changelog)

Just in case this issue is still a thing 😘

mischah commented 7 years ago

Plus npms offers kinda neat quality metrics https://npms.io/search?q=generator-chrome