[elm-discuss] Discovering Elm packages

[Ryan Rempel]

There are new or updated Elm packages every day.

Well, not quite every day -- there were none on July 30, 2017. Before that,
the previous day without any new or updated Elm packages was April 1, 2017.
And, before that, you would have to go back to October 2, 2016 to find an
empty day. (This is counting a "day" in terms of UTC -- you'd get different
results from the point of view of different time zones).

How, you might ask, do I know this? By consulting
<https://package.frelm.org/recent>

Now, perhaps you're thinking that visiting a web page to find recently
published Elm packages is too much effort. How about a Twitter feed?
<https://twitter.com/frelmorg>

You may also be amazed to learn that there are 2073 distinct module names
implemented by published Elm packages. How do I know that? By consulting
<https://package.frelm.org/module>

This is all a bit of an experiment I've put together on my summer vacation.
(I really ought to learn what vacations are for someday). I hope it's a
useful supplementary source of information about Elm packages.

[Ian Mackenzie]

This is great! Already discovered a few interesting packages I didn't know about. Twitter feed followed =)

[Vlad GURDIGA]

This is nice indeed, but what I’m missing is an RSS feed, so that I don’t
have to remember the day when I last looked at the list, and begin scanning
the updates from there.

[Ilias Van Peer]

https://libraries.io/elm <- there are various rss feeds there.

Post by Vlad GURDIGA
This is nice indeed, but what I’m missing is an RSS feed, so that I don’t
have to remember the day when I last looked at the list, and begin scanning
the updates from there.

[Vlad GURDIGA]

It looks like what I was looking for, thank you! 🀓

[Conrad Parker]

Hey, this is great! I like how it can find new elm projects (not just
libraries), and makes it easy to follow dependencies.

Any chance you could change the urls to include username/project rather
than the current repo/key?
eg. https://package.frelm.org/eeue56/elm-html-test/5.0.1 instead
of https://package.frelm.org/repo/339/5.0.1

Post by Ryan Rempel
There are new or updated Elm packages every day.
Well, not quite every day -- there were none on July 30, 2017. Before
that, the previous day without any new or updated Elm packages was April 1,
2017. And, before that, you would have to go back to October 2, 2016 to
find an empty day. (This is counting a "day" in terms of UTC -- you'd get
different results from the point of view of different time zones).
How, you might ask, do I know this? By consulting <
https://package.frelm.org/recent>
Now, perhaps you're thinking that visiting a web page to find recently
published Elm packages is too much effort. How about a Twitter feed? <
https://twitter.com/frelmorg>
You may also be amazed to learn that there are 2073 distinct module names
implemented by published Elm packages. How do I know that? By consulting <
https://package.frelm.org/module>
This is all a bit of an experiment I've put together on my summer
vacation. (I really ought to learn what vacations are for someday). I hope
it's a useful supplementary source of information about Elm packages.

[Ryan Rempel]

Thanks for the feedback!

I've created a couple of issues to track things mentioned here:

- URL structure: <https://github.com/rgrempel/frelm.org/issues/3>
- RSS feeds: <https://github.com/rgrempel/frelm.org/issues/4>

[Matthieu Pizenberg]

Wow, that's awesome! when are your next holidays? ^^

Post by Ryan Rempel
There are new or updated Elm packages every day.
Well, not quite every day -- there were none on July 30, 2017. Before
that, the previous day without any new or updated Elm packages was April 1,
2017. And, before that, you would have to go back to October 2, 2016 to
find an empty day. (This is counting a "day" in terms of UTC -- you'd get
different results from the point of view of different time zones).
How, you might ask, do I know this? By consulting <
https://package.frelm.org/recent>
Now, perhaps you're thinking that visiting a web page to find recently
published Elm packages is too much effort. How about a Twitter feed? <
https://twitter.com/frelmorg>
You may also be amazed to learn that there are 2073 distinct module names
implemented by published Elm packages. How do I know that? By consulting <
https://package.frelm.org/module>
This is all a bit of an experiment I've put together on my summer
vacation. (I really ought to learn what vacations are for someday). I hope
it's a useful supplementary source of information about Elm packages.