[FEATURES] add additional information for a package

Hi guys. I’ve got requests for some new additions to the npm-search index. Let’s discuss them here:

• open issues on gihtub: How many open issues are there.
• number of gihtub stars: How many people stared this projet.
• number of gihtub forks: How many people stared this projet.
• open PR on gihtub: How many open PRs are there.
• last commit on gihtub: When was the last commit on master.
• add any other usefull information (here are all the properties returned by Github’s API)

Does this make sense?

[vvo]

Those are valid concerns, adding the jsDelivr downloads seems “easy”. As for the GitHub api requests that’s a bit more tricky because of what @Haroenv said. Then you also have the freshness issue, currently rebuild the full index every week. If we provide things like number of opened issues, you might want the data to be a little fresher. That might require a bit more work to optimise the data pipeline (today it takes one day to rebuild completely the index, I am sure we can lower it down but we never investigated it too much)

Still, if you already have ideas on how to do it well, please do contribute, make it faster, anything 😃

[vvo]

Thanks for the nice architecture thoughts!

Alternatively, we could use GraphQL to query github, since one GraphQL call can replace multiple REST calls. A single complex GraphQL call could be the equivalent of thousands of REST requests.

I did try out the GitHub GraphQL API, a bit strange at the beginning (I had to understand the actual GraphQL language), but afterwards feels super nice.

Example: https://github.com/vvo/zorgs/blob/master/src/zorgs/src/queries/repositoriesWithCommits.js