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Ranking Node.js Module Authors

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This is running on an EC2 micro instance through use of extensive caching. In addition to storing all static files in memory, I'm grabbing the data from npmjs.org and saving it in memory every 5 minutes. The server is just 35 LOC, you can check it out here https://github.com/ecto/npmtop.com

Seems like they should be ranked by SLOC or number of total watchers for their packages.

Github integration isn't a bad idea. What do you think the easiest way to grab SLOC/author is?

Number of watchers and forks would be awesome, but including SLOC is a dubious metric IMHO.

Other good metrics would be issues and pull request activity. A product with lots of pull requests and solved issues is one that is actively being used by people that probably matter.

It would also be good to be able to rank modules by tags so that questions like, "what are the highest ranked testing libraries?" could be answered.

that's the first thing I noticed as well, it's based on the # of packages published by an author. Would be nice to be able to see a summary on their impact more than the # of packages. On another hand, I have met/worked with some of the people in the top #20 and I can say for sure they are major proponents(?) of Node.js.

Heck, someone could go and published a lot of useless packages and get on the list! (if that kind of vanity was your thing)

edit: michael jackson codes Node.js @ #310

Cool logo, how did you make that? Is it a font?

Yeah, I ran the npm logo against WhatTheFont

cool, thx!

Can you increase the line-spacing a little more?

Assuming you're being sarcastic. You're welcome to make a pull request if you don't like it, but I would start by changing the color palette on your website http://many9s.com/

Do you attack everybody who criticizes you? You must be a joy to work with.

P.S. Those colors were chosen for specific reasons.

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