Module Management / Polyrepo GUI

[mattdesl]

Lots of people are moving to more modular codebases, but the tooling hasn't yet caught up.

It would be great to have an Electron app for managing dozens or hundreds of modules of code. Some feature ideas:

• Viewing outstanding PRs/issues across many repos
• Batch processing and multi-module tasks:
  • transfer ownership, add collaborators
  • deprecation with message
  • renaming modules
  • updating dependencies and running tests
  • running various other shell tasks like ghpages
• Tagging and organizing local modules; these could also be pushed into package.json so the changes are not just local
• Fuzzy search of your own modules
• Quickly cloning & forking other people's modules to make fixes
• Easy overview of stats like your most used dependencies or devDependencies
• Bulk linting and/or sanitizing modules; e.g. scanning readmes for 404 links

The core logic should be decoupled from the tool itself. @yoshuawuyts and @hughsk did a bit of tinkering here:
https://github.com/polyrepo

[sindresorhus]

👍 This needs to exist! :)

[yoshuawuyts]

I'm happy to churn out the tooling behind this; supporting a standalone cli + js api. What do you reckon should come after polyrepo-update ?

[hughsk]

Maybe I'll take a stab at a UI :) @yoshuawuyts Central Park Open Source Day next week?

[yoshuawuyts]

@hughsk ✨ yes! I'll probably be up in Sydney Tue - Fri so take your pick (':

[hughsk]

Swell! Let's do Wednesday :)

[ahmadnassri]

certainly needed, happy to pitch in as well.

[RnbWd]

I've been brainstorming something similar for months, it's why I'm following some of y'all on Twitter / Github. I haven't made much progress though... too many modules to manage in my head. Something like this would be very useful :)

The electron app could act as a proxy, organizer / automator / linter and ui for npm/Github. Just being able to know what modules are required in any given file by hovering over a different representation of the local fs would be useful... I can dream. But the automaton of project management seems like a necessary tool to build more complex tools, and all the tools already exist - putting them all together in an electron app... with a nice UI and search engine... that's the hardest part.