FOSS Drill Down

Inspiration

It is actually inspired by repology site but with a wider scope.

What it does

Search, analyze, and monitor libraries (from package registry), OCI images, and git repositories.

How we built it

I actually have been bookmarking several API docs from various registries on my phone. So it just a matter of cherry-picking and of translating it to a postman collection.

Challenges we ran into

I give up on using Visualizing responses 😫 (more specifically on visualizing the dependencies graph)

It also crashes a lot. Especially when I edit some fields like environment variables and request parameters.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Naming the API collection using emojis and non-renderable Unicode to manually sort it 🤣

What I learned

Postman workspace is handy for managing and prototyping API but the scripting APIs are really lacking since you can't use ES and/or Commonjs Module. Also, the folder, request, and example don't operate the same way as the file system. For example, you can't create a symbolic link to a folder or a request.

If you bit creative, you can also use the monitoring API to watch if a package or version has been yanked, updated, or reported for vulnerabilities.

What's next for Foss Drill Down

Implement them as pure PWA (no backend and/or server-side code)

If you need more detail (or want to collaborate), feel free to contact me. After this hackathon, I plan to move the development to github and not maintain this workspace anymore.

Sorry that I don't have enough interest to fully document this workspace. Feel free to make a PR or just fork it 😣

(if you have a cool logo to be used for this project, feel free to comment it in the workspace 😄)

Built With

• postman