# gitnpm

**Repository Path**: mirrors_stephenplusplus/gitnpm

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: gitnpm
- **Description**: an app that takes you to an npm repository's GitHub.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-11-23
- **Last Updated**: 2026-04-05

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# [gitnpm](http://gitnpm.com)
an app that takes you to an npm package's repo
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Several times a day, I wind up going to npmjs.org/package/some-package to dig through and find the GitHub url. I thought it would be nice to just get booted right to the place I need to go from one url.

## places you can go

### gitnpm.com
*Example: http://gitnpm.com*

### gitnpm.com/{pkgName}
*Example: http://gitnpm.com/gcloud*

### gitnpm.com/{pkgName}/json
*Example: http://gitnpm.com/gcloud/json*

### gitnpm.com/{pkgName}/[version]/json
*Example: http://gitnpm.com/gcloud/json*
*Example: http://gitnpm.com/gcloud/0.36.0/json*

### gitnpm.com/{pkgName}/json/[version]/{property}
*Example: http://gitnpm.com/gcloud/json/dependencies*
*Example: http://gitnpm.com/gcloud/0.36.0/json/dependencies*

### gitnpm.com/{pkgName}/hits
*Example: http://gitnpm.com/gcloud/hits*

## make gitnpm a custom search for quicker results

![Add gitnpm as a custom search engine](custom-search.png)

## under the hood

The app is hosted with Google App Engine [Managed VMs](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms). [gcloud-node](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-node) is used to interact connect to [Google Cloud Datastore](https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs) (used as a [key-value store](https://github.com/stephenplusplus/gcloud-kvstore)) and [Google BigQuery](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/what-is-bigquery).

Each time the app is used, an entry in a Datastore dataset is created as well as a row inserted into a BigQuery dataset. These rows can be queried by going to the `gitnpm.com{pkgName}/hits` route to see when searches have been made for a package.

Also, the favicon is mah baby.