Feature: View Insights for any GitHub topic

[Brian-Pob]

Type of feature

🍕 Feature

Current behavior

I'm new to OpenSauced Insights and I noticed that there was a very limited number of topics I could get insights from.

Though I could get insights on more topics simply by manually changing the URL. This shows that the site can support more than the selected topics.

Suggested solution

Add the ability to manually search for topics to get insights. This can be done by having an input in the topics dropdown menu.

I would like to work on this issue if it gets accepted.

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[bdougie]

Open to UI suggestions on this. As you discovered we are limited to the finding other or new topics, the dropdown is the limiting factor. I don't know if there is an API endpoint for just topics, but that would be helpful.

We could potentially a list of all available topics from GitHub and search using some search tooling.

fuse.js for search

Another option is using existing setup, but allow users to add to the list. We can search list using fuse.js. Fuse would work for a topics endpoint too.

[jpmcb]

Insight's uses the v1/repos/search API endpoint the topic query can be anything. For example, here's a curl query to get the top Flutter repos:

curl -X 'GET' \
  'https://api.opensauced.pizza/v1/repos/search?page=1&limit=10&range=30&topic=flutter' \
  -H 'accept: application/json'

So, yes, I believe it would only be a limitation on how the UI/UX for entering that topic API query would work

[bdougie]

My suggestion is instead of a search we open a command pallette (not designed) to allow the user to filter there instead. This will give us the ability to track to most request topics and only show the most popular, but show other topics in the command pallette.

Similar to github and other project command palettes.