Implement search for repositories in the side bar about repository.surf

[ykdojo]

An idea about how we might be able to implement this:

What if, every time a user loads one of the pages for an organization, we load all the repo names onto the client? If we're worried about the API limit, we can cache this list in SB. (We won't necessarily have to show everything on the UI at once - that can be determined by the client-side code.)

That way, filtering/searching through the repo names will be really quick. With this approach, we can solve #41 at the same time, too. Plus, having an array of 2000 short strings (and maybe their star counts) loaded on the client isn't going to be that expensive.

[ykdojo]

Another idea:

Limit the number of repos shown to 100 by default (the 100 most starred ones). Then, if someone wants to see more, get them to pay a bit 😛

[kiwicopple]

Limit the number of repos shown to 100 by default (the 100 most starred ones). Then, if someone wants to see more, get them to pay a bit 😛

Agree with this approach!

[kiwicopple]

Just thinking about structuring the site too:

Perhaps we also do away with the /[org]/[repo] and the sidebar just becomes a "filter bar."
Essentially there is only one page (/[org]), which might have some filter parameters appended to the URL:

• repository.surf/supabase: shows all repos
• repository.surf/supabase?r=supabase,infrastructure,supabase-js: only some selected.

The URL might get very long though - may be better not to append the filters to the URL (but it would make chart embedding easier).

Just a suggestion

[ykdojo]

The URL might get very long though - may be better not to append the filters to the URL (but it would make chart embedding easier).

With this approach, maybe we can store a map/table of a shortened URL parameter to a list of selected repos in SB?

So the table could look like:

organization (primary key), uuid (primary key), selected_repos (json)
supabase, j309j2j, ['supabase', 'infrastructure', 'supabase-js']
supabase, oj122j0, ['supabase', 'supabase-js']

And the corresponding URLs:

• repository.surf/supabase?r=j309j2j
• repository.surf/supabase?r=oj122j0