Fastosphere is a website and a CLI to search Meteor packages really quickly thanks to Algolia search engine.
http://fastosphere.meteor.com provides you a very quick and easy way to find Meteor packages. You'll have basic information like package name, description, latest version, latest release date, GitHub Url, number of GitHub stars.
It's an alternative to Atmosphere. The main advantages are it's freesoftware and a lot faster than Atmosphere.
The command line has a few really cool features.
sudo npm -g install fastosphere
or if you have an older version
sudo npm update -g
It's an alternative to meteor search. The main advantage is it gives you real information about packages to help you to choose which one you want to install (GitHub stars, sort by score, GitHub Urls). So you don't have to leave your terminal to find which package to install.
If you want to compare, do this test:
$ meteor search moment
$ npm -g install fastosphere
$ fastosphere search moment -l
You can also test:
$ fastosphere search mo # lazy
$ fastosphere search m # really lazy
$ fastosphere search moomment # dyslexic
$ fastosphere search moment -n 2 # 2 results
$ fastosphere search moment -g # GitHub Urls (⌘ + click on the url to open the url)
$ fastosphere search moment -l # long format (more info)
With fastosphere, you can see what is new in the packages (and Meteor) you use in a Meteor project. Go inside a Meteor project and type:
$ fastosphere
It'll display all changelogs between your current version and the most up to date.
If you want to do a test from scratch:
$ git clone https://github.com/acemtp/meteor-fastosphere-changelog-test.git
$ cd meteor-fastosphere-changelog-test
$ fastosphere
You can also use fastosphere -v to have more information.
It'll work only for packages who have a valid GitHub Url inside package.js and a CHANGELOG.md or a History.md (case insensitive) in the root folder of the GitHub project. If you have some packages, you can check the status on the fastosphere website, it'll tell you if something is wrong. If you log on with your github account, you'll be able to force refresh the package so fastosphere will try to get the github/changelog file again (it's not reactive, you'll have to refresh the webpage to see if the error message left).
So if you like the feature, create changelogs or ask package maintainers to create them.
Do you feel lucky? You can use fastosphere to install a Meteor package without the need to know the name of the maintainer or which one if the best one.
You want to install momentjs:moment? Just do:
$ fastosphere add mo
It'll install the first result of the search fastosphere search mo.
If you want to fork this project, please change analytics ID with yours in <head> part of client.html. Also cp settings.example.json settings.js, create an account on Algolia and fill your settings.json with the Algolia generated keys. Do the same for github api keys.
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