back

by swyx·9y ago·view on hn ↗
first project submission from a newbie coder so I'm a little nervous...

this was made to solve a pain point of mine which was 1) not having a good mental framework around deciding whether a boilerplate or starter kit was worth investing time in and 2) not being able to search for boilerplates by the desired stack.

Basically I wanted a npms.io for github boilerplates instead of single npm libraries. I hate the "awesome-foobar" movement because it is just a reinvention of yahoo and gets stale extremely quickly while not taking advantage of obvious metadata. A good attempt was made by Andrew Farmer here: http://andrewhfarmer.com/starter-project/ but it didnt have the metrics i thought would be obvious to incorporate.

you can plug in literally any framework to see how it ranks as long as it's on github. No login required unless you want to review/favorite/search boilerplates. See: https://packagejason.herokuapp.com/sahat/hackathon-starter

This is just a first release, i have a public trello board up here: https://trello.com/b/u28EAYJ5/swyx-boilerpl8 and the code is open source here: https://github.com/sw-yx/packageJason. it is built on top of https://github.com/cleverbeagle/pup which is built on top of Meteor.